There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
A. E. HOUSMANThey put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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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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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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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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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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