And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMANHope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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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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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.
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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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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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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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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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