E. Housman
E. Housman
spring tree cherries
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
cheer silence ears
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
heart giving rubies
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
luck towers hours
Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
world stranger made
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
men inspire mind
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...
funny sarcastic air
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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.
beer sky ale
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
beer dust sky
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
dance drinking dancing
Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
travel time lying
Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
guests life-is lifetime
Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
winter june heaven
June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.