...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...Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as lads would choose; I rheer a dead man's sweetheart, Never ask me whose." This is mere fancy, if you please, but what other...

...dialogue between a dead man and his living friend, the gist of which lies in the friend's last answer : Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as lads would choose ;...cheer a dead man's sweetheart, Never ask me whose. As for the pains of love misplaced, have they ever been more poignantly or more briefly expressed than...

...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...cheer a dead man's sweetheart, Never ask me whose. XXVIII THE WELSH MARCHES HIGH the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam Islanded in Severn stream ; The bridges...

...death and the grave is a mark of youth. Young poets love to write about death, because its contrast to their present condition forms a romantic tragedy,...religious belief, but from conventional reverence. But the originality in A Shropshire Lad, while more strikingly displayed in some poems than in others, leaves...

...of love is often treated with an ironical bitterness that makes one think of Time's Laughing stocks. Is my friend hearty, Now I am thin and pine, And has...religious belief, but from conventional reverence. But the originality in A Shropshire Lad, while more strikingly displayed in some poems than in others, leaves...

...ironical bitterness that makes one think of Time's Laughing stocks. Is my friend hearty, Now I ain thin and pine, And has he found to sleep in A better...religious belief, but from conventional reverence. But the originality in A Shropshire Lad, while more strikingly displayed in some poems than in others, leaves...

...artistic monstrosity as I have quoted above. Nor is that monstrosity the only one. When the ghost asks : Is my friend hearty, Now I am thin and pine, And has he found to sleep in A belter bed than mine ? Dr. Vaughan Williams, incredible as it may seem, makes him do so in an agitated...

...of love is often treated with an ironical bitterness that makes one think of Time's Laughing stocks. Is my friend hearty, Now I am thin and pine, And has he found to sleep in A better bed than minef Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as lads would choose; I cheer a dead man's sweetheart, Never ask...

...and moaning round your pillow after you had married Babs. . . . " 'Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as men would choose; I cheer a dead man's sweetheart, Never ask me whose!' . . . the part of Ophelia. . . . There's something wrong with that, somewhere." "There is indeed. Have you thought...

...and moaning round your pillow after you had married Babs. . . . " 'Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as men would choose; I cheer a dead man's sweetheart, Never ask me whose!' . . . Or — no — what was the special stunt of Hamlet's father? I'd appear to young Larrikin and...