Poetry Thursday

XXXVII, from "More Poems"
by A.E. Housman [x]

I did not lose my heart in summer's even,
When roses to the moonrise burst apart;
When plumes were under heel and lead was flying,
In blood and smoke and flame I lost my heart.

I lost it to a soldier and a foeman,
A chap that did not kill me, but he tried;
That took the sabre straight and took it striking,
And laughed and kissed his hand to me and died.