519. Into My Heart by AE Housman (Poem 40 from A Shropshire Lad by AE Housman)

Published: Nov. 24, 2009, 10:02 a.m.

b'Poem 40 from A Shropshire Lad (Into My Heart)\\nby AE Housman (1859 \\u2013 1936)\\n\\nInto my heart on air that kills\\n From yon far country blows:\\nWhat are those blue remembered hills,\\n What spires, what farms are those?\\n \\nThat is the land of lost content, \\n I see it shining plain,\\nThe happy highways where I went\\n And cannot come again.\\n\\nFirst aired: 24 November 2009\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'