A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

Alfred Housman was born in Fockbury, England, but his parents moved shortly after his birth to Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, near the Shropshire countryside he immortalized in poetry. His father, a

Look not in my eyes, for fear

by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman (1859–1936)

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Look not in my eyes, for fear

They mirror true the sight I see,

And there you find your face too clear

And love it and be lost like me.

One the long nights through must lie

Spent in star-defeated sighs,

But why should you as well as I

Perish? gaze not in my eyes.

A Grecian lad, as I hear tell,

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