Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
A. E. HOUSMANWho made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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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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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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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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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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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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