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.
A. E. HOUSMANThere, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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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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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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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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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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