Sorrowful
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
A.E. Housman
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) published ‘Into my heart an air that kills’ as part of his collection A Shropshire Lad in 1896. Written shortly after his father’s death, it is a poem steeped in wistfulness for his childhood, and is preoccupied with memory and loss.
