Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
A. E. HOUSMANI think that to transfuse emotion – not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader’s sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer – is the peculiar function of poetry.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over then there’ll be time enough to sleep.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.
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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man’s.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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