E. Housman
E. Housman
fellows trouble
This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not
lads lays thinking
Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
lie midnight rainy stroke
The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down alone.
pass
Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.
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.
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.
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.
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?
gone london sights year
In my fourteenth year I had gone up to London for the first time, to see as many of the sights as could be got into a fortnight.
goal keeper stands
The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
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