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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.

A. E. Housman

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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Deep Feeling Light Love Lover Luck Thought Understand
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Cheer Doubt Ear Emotion Fear Scare Silence Sound Stop Worse
White in the moon the long road lies.
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Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
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Die Drop Fall Sky Stars
Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Poetry Words Writing
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Bloom Flower Nature Tree
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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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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Fame Fleeting Lover Luck Thoughts Trouble
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Human Knowledge Precious Service
Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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I 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.
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Emotion Poetry Reader Transmit
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Draw Happiness Meaning Perfection Poetry Understand
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Ears Earth Silence Worst
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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Boundation Feel Lover Lying Night Power Satisfy Self Esteem Sleep Try
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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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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Collection Count Curse Himself Strength

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.

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