Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
A. E. HOUSMANI could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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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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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
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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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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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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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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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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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