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.
A. E. HOUSMANA moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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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.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
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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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