Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
A. E. HOUSMAN
A. E. HOUSMAN
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman 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.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman 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.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman 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.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman 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.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman
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