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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...
Great literature should...
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his...
The goal stands...
The goal stands up, the keeper
Stands up to keep the goal.
Source: A Shropshire...
Even when poetry...
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . . Perfect understanding...
Good religious poetry...
Good religious poetry . . . is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the...
About the woodlands...
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
Source: A...
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...
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...
Perfect understanding will...
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Source: In...
And silence sounds...
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.
That is the...
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come...
But men at...
But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon...
A neck God...
A neck God made for other use
Than strangling in a string.
Source: A Shropshire...
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...
Now, of my...
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again.
Source: A...