E. Housman
E. Housman
land lie though
No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
land shining nostalgia
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
good-night sea land
Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England
grief land giving
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
golden heart maiden
With rue my heart is laden / For golden friends I had, / For many a rose-lipt maiden / And many a lightfoot lad.
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.
heart men blue
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
poetry rats terriers
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
fits hands men sober
But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their hands upon their hearts.
fine next oh shall year
May will be fine next year as like as not: / Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.
clean love
Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
earth sea turning wears
Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
ask lovers lying night sleep turns whom
Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / Never turns him to the bride.
pass
Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.