Into my heart an air that kills
A. E. Housman * Track #40 On A Shropshire Lad
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- #40Into my heart an air that kills
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Into my heart an air that kills by A. E. Housman
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The fortieth poem in Housman’s seminal collection A Shropshire Lad, “Into my heart an air that kills” imagines the past as a “land of lost content”. It’s about nostalgia, and the missed opportunities that we look back on when we grow older.
Lewis‘ Hathaway once used it as a pick-up line.
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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.