Is My Team Ploughing by A. E. Housman
Is My Team Ploughing by A. E. Housman

Is My Team Ploughing

A. E. Housman * Track #27 On A Shropshire Lad

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Is My Team Ploughing by A. E. Housman

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“Is My Team Ploughing” is one of the better-known poems from A Shropshire Lad, an 1896 collection by A(lfred) E(dward) Housman (1859-1936). It consists of a dialogue between a dead country youth and his still-living friend, who…hasn’t been the world’s greatest friend since his buddy went underground...

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Is My Team Ploughing Annotated

XXVII

“IS my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?”

Ay, the horses trample,
The harness jingles now;
No change though you lie under
The land you used to plough.

“Is football playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?”

Ay, the ball is flying,
The lads play heart and soul;
The goal stands up, the keeper
Stands up to keep the goal.

“Is my girl happy,
That I thought hard to leave,
And has she tired of weeping
As she lies down at eve?”

Ay, she lies down lightly,
She lies not down to weep:
Your girl is well contented.
Be still, my lad, and sleep.

“Is my friend hearty,
Now I am thin and pine,
And has he found to sleep in
A better bed than mine?”

Yes, lad, I lie easy.
I lie as lads would choose;
I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart,
Never ask me whose.

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