A Shropshire Lad II, "Loveliest of Trees," by A.E. Housman, read by Stephen Bauhart.

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Poetry Reading - full poem

Keywords: Waste, wasted, potential, trapped, fool, wisdom, lovesick,

Astrophil and Stella 23

The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness
Bewray itself in my long-settl'd eyes,
Whence those same fumes of melancholy rise,
With idle pains and missing aim do guess.
Some, that know how my spring I did address,
Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies;
Others, because the prince my service tries,
Think that I think state errors to redress;
But harder judges judge ambition's rage,
Scourge of itself, still climbing slipp'ry place,
Holds my young brain captiv'd in golden cage.
O fool or over-wise! alas, the race
Of all my thoughts hath neither stop nor start
But only Stella's eyes and Stella's heart.

- Written by Sir Philip Sidney
- Read by Stephen J.N. Bauhart
- "Slow Piano Waltz" by Julius H, found on Pixabay

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