“The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

About Alfred Edward Housman

Poet • British

A. E. Housman was a distinguished English classical scholar and poet, celebrated for his pessimistic and lyrical poetry. His most famous work, 'A Shropshire Lad', a collection of sixty-three poems, evokes themes of...