E. Housman
E. Housman
milton
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
decree god man
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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.
blew eve knit life morning stuff
From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I
blew eve knit life morning stuff
From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I
comfort lad luck small
Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had no luck at all
brute certainty cursed hopeful plans sat tempest whatever
We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
coloured hear high love morning sunday
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.
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