E. Housman
E. Housman
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.
god neck
A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string.
falls further hopeless past sight touch west
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
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.
cherry hung
About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
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.
lads lays thinking
Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
feels man pockets wonders
The young man feels his pockets / And wonders what's to pay.
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
goal keeper stands
The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
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.