E. Housman
E. Housman
earth sea turning wears
Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
air both earth
Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.
air earth tomorrow
Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
strong heaven earth
Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
peace darkness earth
We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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
lay notion range time within
At that time I had no notion that I should ever come to live in Somerset - to live actually within the range of what then lay before me.
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.
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
land lie though
No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.