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.
A. E. HOUSMANThe 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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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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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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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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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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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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