A Shropshire Lad

Album by A. E. Housman & Samuel West

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
    1:31
  2. 2.
    Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
    0:39
  3. 3.
    THE RECRUIT: Leave your home behind, lad
    1:05
  4. 4.
    REVEILLE: Wake: the silver dusk returning
    1:08
  5. 5.
    Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
    1:30
  6. 6.
    When the lad for longing sighs
    0:36
  7. 7.
    When smoke stood up from Ludlow
    1:16
  8. 8.
    'Farewell to barn and stack and tree'
    1:02
  9. 9.
    On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
    1:23
  10. 10.
    MARCH: The sun at noon to higher air
    1:01
  11. 11.
    On your midnight pallet lying
    0:42
  12. 12.
    When I watch the living meet
    0:45
  13. 13.
    When I was one - and - twenty
    0:45
  14. 14.
    There pass the careless people
    0:56
  15. 15.
    Look not in my eyes, for fear
    0:50
  16. 16.
    It nods and curtseys and recovers
    0:29
  17. 17.
    Twice a week the winter thorough
    0:35
  18. 18.
    Oh, when I was in love with you
    0:25
  19. 19.
    TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
    1:24
  20. 20.
    Oh fair enough are sky and plain
    0:44
  21. 21.
    BREDON HILL: In summertime on Bredon
    1:30
  22. 22.
    The street sounds to the soldiers' tread
    0:37
  23. 23.
    The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair
    1:08
  24. 24.
    Say, lad, have you things to do
    0:36
  25. 25.
    This time of year a twelvemonth past
    0:43
  26. 26.
    Along the fields as we came by
    0:56
  27. 27.
    'Is my team ploughing'
    1:25
  28. 28.
    THE WELSH MARCHES: High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
    1:41
  29. 29.
    THE LENT LILY: 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
    0:48
  30. 30.
    Others, I am not the first
    0:51
  31. 31.
    On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
    1:07
  32. 32.
    From far, from eve and morning
    0:34
  33. 33.
    If truth in hearts that perish
    0:49
  34. 34.
    THE NEW MISTRESS
    1:08
  35. 35.
    On the idle hill of summer
    0:47
  36. 36.
    White in the moon the long road lies
    0:51
  37. 37.
    As through the wild green hills of Wyre
    1:39
  38. 38.
    The winds out of the west land blow
    0:53
  39. 39.
    'Tis time, I think by Wenlock town
    0:39
  40. 40.
    Into my heart an air that kills
    0:31
  41. 41.
    In my own shire, if I was sad
    1:29
  42. 42.
    THE MERRY GUIDE: Once in the wind of morning
    2:23
  43. 43.
    THE IMMORTAL PART: When I meet the morning beam
    2:04
  44. 44.
    Shot so quick, so clean an ending
    1:33
  45. 45.
    If it chance your eye offend you
    0:27
  46. 46.
    Bring, in this timeless grave to throw
    1:07
  47. 47.
    THE CARPENTER'S SON: 'Here the hangman stops his cart'
    1:19
  48. 48.
    Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle
    1:22
  49. 49.
    Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
    0:32
  50. 50.
    Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun
    1:08
  51. 51.
    Loitering with a vacant eye
    1:05
  52. 52.
    Far in a western brookland
    0:46
  53. 53.
    THE TRUE LOVER: The lad came to the door at night
    1:34
  54. 54.
    With rue my heart is laden
    0:28
  55. 55.
    Westward on the high - hilled plains
    0:45
  56. 56.
    THE DAY OF BATTLE: 'Far I hear the bugle blow'
    0:46
  57. 57.
    You smile upon your friend to - day
    0:24
  58. 58.
    When I came last to Ludlow
    0:26
  59. 59.
    THE ISLE OF PORTLAND: The star - filled seas are smooth to - night
    0:42
  60. 60.
    Now hollow fires burn out to black
    0:26
  61. 61.
    HUGHLEY STEEPLE: The vane on Hughley steeple
    1:03
  62. 62.
    'Terence, this is stupid stuff'
    2:58
  63. 63.
    I Hoed and trenched and weeded
    0:43