The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
A. E. HOUSMANStone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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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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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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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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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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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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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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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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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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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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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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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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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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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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