{"id":408,"date":"2010-05-01T22:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T22:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=408"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:12:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:12:25","slug":"when-i-was-one-and-twenty-by-alfred-edward-housman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/when-i-was-one-and-twenty-by-alfred-edward-housman\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY by Alfred Edward Housman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A. E. Housman (1859-1936)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY by Alfred Edward Housman<\/p>\n

When I was one-and-twenty
\nI heard a wise man say,
\n“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
\nBut not your heart away;
\nGive pearls away and rubies
\nBut keep your fancy free.”
\nBut I was one-and-twenty,
\nNo use to talk to me.
\nWhen I was one-and-twenty
\nI heard him say again,
\n“The heart out of the bosom
\nWas never given in vain;
\n‘Tis paid with sighs a-plenty
\nAnd sold for endless rue.”
\nAnd I am two-and-twenty,
\nAnd oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A. E. Housman was born March 26, 1859, and, after a classical education, he was, for ten years, a Higher Division Clerk in H. M. Patent Office. Later in life, he became a teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-1900s","category-poems-for-kids"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t