And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMANWe now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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