E. Housman
E. Housman
heart men blue
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
beautiful strong morning
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.
cheer silence ears
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
humorous trouble ill
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.
country blow air
Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
life war lying
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
years twenties wearing-white
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
drinking food book
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
thinking peculiar vibrations
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.
lying orion midnight
The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
personal-opinions perception literature
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
heart men thinking
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
heart giving rubies
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
home beer half
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.