We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
A. E. HOUSMANHe 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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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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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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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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