I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
A. E. HOUSMANYou 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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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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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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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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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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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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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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