That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. HOUSMANTell 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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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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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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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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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
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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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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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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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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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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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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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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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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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