Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
A. E. HOUSMANThree minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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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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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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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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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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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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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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This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.
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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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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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