Quotes by A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman

‘Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there’s the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there’s the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.

Easter

Spring

Wind

Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Beer

Hurt

Men

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

Lovers

Lying

Ties

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

Humans

Use

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.

Book

Drinking

Food

Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I’d throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: ‘Farewell,’ said you, ‘forget me.’ ‘Fare well, I will,’ said I. If e’er, where clover whitens The dead man’s knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.

Farewell

Flower

Heart

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.

Guilt

Love

Soul

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

Book

Needs

Reading

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

Earth

Heaven

Strong

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.

Giving

Grief

Land

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Air

Appreciated

Asylums

Average

Beautiful

Beer

Belief

Blow

Blue

Body

Book

Brave

Cambridge

Change

Church

Cooking

Country

Criticism

Dominion

Drinking

Dumb

Dust

Earth

Easter

Evil

Fall

Farewell

Fence

Fists

Flower

Food

Funny

Giving

Glory

Goodness

Grief

Guilt

Hair

Halt

Happiness

Heart

Heaven

Hero

Home

Humans

Humorous

Hurt

Ill

Inspire

Joy

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Quotes by A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman

‘Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there’s the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there’s the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.

Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

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.

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