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.
A. E. HOUSMANStrapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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To justify God’s ways to man.
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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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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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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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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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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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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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