What's worse than unrequited love? The loveless passing of your beloved. In this poem, A.E. Housman relives the agonies of the ignored and forgotten lovers of Narcissus.

A Shropshire Lad 15, by A.E. Housman

Our lives are too busy, distracted and dissatisfying. Art can jolt us back to the moment, to the simple joy of living. Poetry especially awakens my “mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us.” Here I share with the universe those poems that for me best peel away “the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude,” pointing a way back to the life more abundant.

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A Shropshire Lad 15, by A.E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad 15, by A.E. Housman