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.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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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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White in the moon the long road lies.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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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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