They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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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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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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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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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover’s say, And happy is the lover. ‘Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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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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