Day 23 of the 2007 Fun-a-Day project with the Artclash Collective.

Because I Liked You (untitled love poem, published posthumously)
By A.E. Housman

Because I liked you better
    Than suits a man to say,
It irked you, and I promised
    To throw the thought away.

To put the world between us
    We parted, stiff and dry;
“Good-bye,” said you, “forget me.”
    “I will, no fear,” said I.

If here, where clover whitens
    The dead man’s knoll, you pass,
And no tall flower to meet you
    Starts in the trefoiled grass,

Halt by the headstone naming
    The heart no longer stirred,
And say the lad that loved you
    Was one that kept his word.