Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
A. E. HOUSMANGive me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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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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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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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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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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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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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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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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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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