All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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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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A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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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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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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Who 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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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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