A E Housman

A E Housman: Look not in...

A E Housman: Look not in...

Look not in my eyes, for fear
They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
And...

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A E Housman: Great literature should...

A E Housman: Great literature should...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his...

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A E Housman: The goal stands...

A E Housman: The goal stands...

The goal stands up, the keeper
Stands up to keep the goal.


Source: A Shropshire...

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A E Housman: Even when poetry...

A E Housman: Even when poetry...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . . Perfect understanding...

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A E Housman: Good religious poetry...

A E Housman: Good religious poetry...

Good religious poetry . . . is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the...

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A E Housman: About the woodlands...

A E Housman: About the woodlands...

About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.


Source: A...

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A E Housman: Clay lies still,...

A E Housman: Clay lies still,...

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad; when the journey's...

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A E Housman: From far, from...

A E Housman: From far, from...

From far, from eve and morning
And yon twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither: here am...

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A E Housman: Perfect understanding will...

A E Housman: Perfect understanding will...

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Source: In...

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A E Housman: And silence sounds...

A E Housman: And silence sounds...

And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.


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A E Housman: That is the...

A E Housman: That is the...

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come...

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A E Housman: But men at...

A E Housman: But men at...

But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon...

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A E Housman: A neck God...

A E Housman: A neck God...

A neck God made for other use
Than strangling in a string.


Source: A Shropshire...

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A E Housman: When I was...

A E Housman: When I was...

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
`Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart...

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A E Housman: Now, of my...

A E Housman: Now, of my...

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again.


Source: A...

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