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.
A. E. HOUSMANWhen the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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I think that to transfuse emotion – not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader’s sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer – is the peculiar function of poetry.
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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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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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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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