The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not aware / He has been eaten by the bear. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 1
The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down alone. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
When I was one-and-twenty / I heard a wise man say, / `Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.'. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the larks so high / About us in the sky. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
With rue my heart is laden / For golden friends I had, / For many a rose-lipt maiden / And many a lightfoot lad. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
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. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / Never turns him to the bride. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
And the feather pate of folly / Bears the falling of the sky. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
May will be fine next year as like as not: / Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their hands upon their hearts. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am a greater scholar than Wordsworth and I am a greater poet than Porson. So I fall betwixt and between. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
`Come all to church, good people,' - / Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; / I hear you, I will come. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the journey's over / There'll be time enough for sleep. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
O Queen of air and darkness, I think 'tis truth you say, And I shall die to-morrow; But you will die to-day. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0