I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
A. E. HOUSMANJune suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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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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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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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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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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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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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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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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