E. Housman
E. Housman
clay lies time
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.
cambridge fall greater poet scholar seen strange wordsworth
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.
air blue country far farms heart remembered
Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills, / What spires, what farms are those?
belief common ended good human rescued war
Before the war ended common sense had rescued me from any belief that war could do the human race, or my country, any good whatever.
cherry hung
About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
bright carry die glory lads
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
face stranger
And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world I never made
aware bear child devoured eaten huge infant
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.
cheers death silence sounds stopped worse
And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
water wood
And like a skylit water stood, The bluebells in the azured wood
goal keeper stands
The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
happy lovely none seemed till woke
Then the world seemed none so bad, and I myself a sterling lad. And down in lovely muck I've lain, happy - till I woke up again.
air die queen shall truth
O Queen of air and darkness,I think 'tis truth you say,And I shall die to-morrow;But you will die to-day.
hurt beer men
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.