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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

A. E. Housman

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
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Fire Friend Hollow Light Shoulder
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Ability Himself Nature Thinking Writing
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Ears Earth Silence Worst
Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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Dance Drink World
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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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Bloom Flower Nature Tree
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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Grief Land Love Myself Stand Tree
To justify God’s ways to man.
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God Justification Man One Liner Way
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Break Dance Leaving Print
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Cheer Doubt Ear Emotion Fear Scare Silence Sound Stop Worse
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Human Knowledge Precious Service
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Drink Fellow Hurt
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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Day Heart Himself Man Soul Woman
Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Earth Heaven High Strong

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

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