I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
A. E. HOUSMANLovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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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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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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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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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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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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The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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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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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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