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Alfred Edward Housman quotes (13) Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse And malt does more than Milton can To justify Gods ways to man. Ale man ales the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think. Alfred Edward Housman Category: More Experience has taught me when I am shaving of a morning to keep watch over my thoughts because if a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.... The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Poetry The bells they sound on Bredon And still the steeples hum. Come all to church good people Oh noisy bells be dumb; I hear you I will come. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Unsorted That is the land of lost content I see it shining plain The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Memory 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. Alfred Edward Housman Category: War When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Wise These in the day when heaven was falling The hour when earths foundations fled Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons beginning August 24 1914. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Soldier Loveliest of trees the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Tree Good night; ensured release Imperishable peace Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earths foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housmans grave in the parish church at Ludlow Shropshire England. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Epitaphs Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills What spires what farms are those? That is the land of lost content I see it shining plain The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Born Oh when I was in love with you Then I was clean and brave And miles around the wonder grew How well I did behave. And now the fancy passes by And nothing will remain And miles around theyll say that I Am quite myself again. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Love And how am I to face the odds Of mans bedevilment and Gods? I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Life I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Alienation |
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