Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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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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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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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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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do 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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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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