03-27-2011, 12:40 AM
A. E. Housman, 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
When I was one-and-twenty from A Shropshire Lad is a personal favorite.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.’
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
‘The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.’
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
wrote directly about homosexuality only in his short stories, his poetry, and his late plays.
Leigh Bowery, (1961-1994)
Club host, fashion designer, face about town, and artists' muse.
Bowery's life is the subject of a recent musical, Taboo, with a score by Boy George (George O'Dowd).
Australian lesbian poet Dorothy Porter (1954-2008)
When I was one-and-twenty from A Shropshire Lad is a personal favorite.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.’
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
‘The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.’
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
wrote directly about homosexuality only in his short stories, his poetry, and his late plays.
Leigh Bowery, (1961-1994)
Club host, fashion designer, face about town, and artists' muse.
Bowery's life is the subject of a recent musical, Taboo, with a score by Boy George (George O'Dowd).
Australian lesbian poet Dorothy Porter (1954-2008)
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