They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
A. E. HOUSMANClay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over then there’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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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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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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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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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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To justify God’s ways to man.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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