With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade.
Poems by A.E.Housman
 [incomplete]Song Cycle by Ronald A. Beckett
1. With rue my heart is laden  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 54, first published 1896
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