When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
A. E. HOUSMANExperience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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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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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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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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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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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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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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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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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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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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