When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
A. E. HOUSMANThree minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.
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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover’s say, And happy is the lover. ‘Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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