There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.
A. E. HOUSMANThey 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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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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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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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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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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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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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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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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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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