Alfred Edward Housman/Samuel West: A Shropshire Lad

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1887 From Clee To Heaven the Beacon Burns

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

Recruit: Leave Your Home Behind, Lad, The

Reveille: Wake: the Silver Dusk Returning

Oh See How Thick the Goldcup Flowers

When the Lad For Longing Sighs

When Some Stood Up From Ludlow

'Farewell To Barn and Stack and Tree'

On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank

March: the Sun At Noon To Higher Air

On Your Midnight Pallet Lying

When I Watch the Living Meet

When I Was One-and-Twenty

There Pass the Careless People

Look Not In My Eyes, For Fear

It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers

Twice a Week the Winter Thorough

Oh, When I Was In Love With You

To an Athlete Dying Young

Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain

Bredon Hill: In Summertime On Bredon

Street Sounds To the Soldiers' Tread, The

Lads In Their Hundreds To Ludlow Com e In For the Fair, The

Say, Lad, Have You Things To Do?

This Time of Year a Twelvemonth Past

Along the Fields As We Came By

'is My Team Ploughing'

Welsh Marches: High the Vanes of Shr ewsbury Gleam, The

Lent Lily: 'Tis Spring; Come Out To Ramble, The

Others, I Am Not the First

On Wenlock Edge the Woods' In Trouble

From Far, From Eve and Morning

If Truth In Hearts That Perish

New Mistress, The

On the Idle Hill of Summer

White In the Moon the Long Road Lies

As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre

Winds Out of the West Land Blow, The

'Tis Time, I Think By Wenlock Town

Into My Heart an Air That Kills

In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad

Merry Guide: Once In the Wind of Mor ning, The

Immportal Part: When I Meet the Morn ing Beam, The

Shot? So Quick, So Clean and Ending?

If It Chance Your Eye Offend You

Bring, In This Timeless Grave To Throw

Carpenter's Son: 'Here the Hangman S tops His Cart', The

Be Still, My Soul, Be Still; the Arms You Bear Are Brittle

Think No More, Lad; Laugh, Be Jolly

Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun

Loitering With a Vacant Eye

Far In a Western Brookland

True Lover: the Lad Came To the Door At Night, The

With Rue My Heart is Laden

Westward On the High-Hilled Plains

Day of Battle: 'Far I Hear the Bugle Blow', The

You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day

When I Came Lost To Ludlow

Isle of Portland: the Star-Filled Se as Are Smooth To-Night, The

Now Hollow Fires Burn Out To Black

Hughley Steeple: the Vane On Hughley Steeple

'Terence, This is Stupid Stuff'

I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded

Track List

1887 From Clee To Heaven the Beacon Burns

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

Recruit: Leave Your Home Behind, Lad, The

Reveille: Wake: the Silver Dusk Returning

Oh See How Thick the Goldcup Flowers

When the Lad For Longing Sighs

When Some Stood Up From Ludlow

'Farewell To Barn and Stack and Tree'

On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank

March: the Sun At Noon To Higher Air

On Your Midnight Pallet Lying

When I Watch the Living Meet

When I Was One-and-Twenty

There Pass the Careless People

Look Not In My Eyes, For Fear

It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers

Twice a Week the Winter Thorough

Oh, When I Was In Love With You

To an Athlete Dying Young

Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain

Bredon Hill: In Summertime On Bredon

Street Sounds To the Soldiers' Tread, The

Lads In Their Hundreds To Ludlow Com e In For the Fair, The

Say, Lad, Have You Things To Do?

This Time of Year a Twelvemonth Past

Along the Fields As We Came By

'is My Team Ploughing'

Welsh Marches: High the Vanes of Shr ewsbury Gleam, The

Lent Lily: 'Tis Spring; Come Out To Ramble, The

Others, I Am Not the First

On Wenlock Edge the Woods' In Trouble

From Far, From Eve and Morning

If Truth In Hearts That Perish

New Mistress, The

On the Idle Hill of Summer

White In the Moon the Long Road Lies

As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre

Winds Out of the West Land Blow, The

'Tis Time, I Think By Wenlock Town

Into My Heart an Air That Kills

In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad

Merry Guide: Once In the Wind of Mor ning, The

Immportal Part: When I Meet the Morn ing Beam, The

Shot? So Quick, So Clean and Ending?

If It Chance Your Eye Offend You

Bring, In This Timeless Grave To Throw

Carpenter's Son: 'Here the Hangman S tops His Cart', The

Be Still, My Soul, Be Still; the Arms You Bear Are Brittle

Think No More, Lad; Laugh, Be Jolly

Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun

Loitering With a Vacant Eye

Far In a Western Brookland

True Lover: the Lad Came To the Door At Night, The

With Rue My Heart is Laden

Westward On the High-Hilled Plains

Day of Battle: 'Far I Hear the Bugle Blow', The

You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day

When I Came Lost To Ludlow

Isle of Portland: the Star-Filled Se as Are Smooth To-Night, The

Now Hollow Fires Burn Out To Black

Hughley Steeple: the Vane On Hughley Steeple

'Terence, This is Stupid Stuff'

I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded

Album Remarks & Appraisals:

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... this fine production captures perfectly [Housman] strong, melodic beat and decisive rhyme, and his wonderful way with words. Samuel West's... voice and reading are true to Housman... West, you feel, reads poetry as it should be read - confidently, with ease and conviction, as if all the world spoke in meter and rhyme.

Album Notes

Personnel: Samuel West (spoken vocals).

Liner Note Author: David Timson.

Recording information: Motivation Sound Studios, London.

Editor: Malcolm Blackmoor.

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