The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMANLoveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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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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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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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 mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man’s.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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You 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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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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