When I Was One-And-Twenty by A E Housman - Poetry Reading

When I Was One-And-Twenty - A poem by A E Housman. About the poem - Housman&remarkable love poem, "When I Was One-And-Twenty", is simple and elegant poem from his collection titled "A Shropshire Lad". He writes of youth typically not heeding wise advice. The poem consists of two rimed stanzas of eight lines each. The rime scheme is ABCBCDAD in the first stanza and ABCBADAD in the second stanza. About the poet - Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 -- 30 April 1936), famously known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK. Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time.