A Shropshire Lad - LIX - The Isle Of Portland

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The Isle of Portland was published in Housman's collection of 63 poems in A Shropshire Lad (1896). Housman self-published the book after being turned down by several publishers. Themes tend to focus on unrequited love, pastoral beauty, fleeting youth, grief, death, and patriotism.
Author A. E. Housman 
    The star-filled seas are smooth to-night
    From France to England strown;
    Black towers above the Portland light
    The felon-quarried stone.

    On yonder island, not to rise,
    Never to stir forth free,
    Far from his folk a dead lad lies
    That once was friends with me.

    Lie you easy, dream you light,
    And sleep you fast for aye;
    And luckier may you find the night
    Than ever you found the day.
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