I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. HOUSMANOh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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Clay 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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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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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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They 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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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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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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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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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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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