Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
A. E. HOUSMAN
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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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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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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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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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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