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A.E.Housman

Last Poems by A. E. Housman

  • ofri sharonhas quoted2 years ago
    But air of other summers
    Breathed from beyond the snows,
    And I had hope of those.
  • ofri sharonhas quoted2 years ago
    I know not if it rains, my love,
    In the land where you do lie;
    And oh, so sound you sleep, my love,
    You know no more than I.
  • ofri sharonhas quoted2 years ago
    In the blue and silver morning
    On the haycock as they lay,
    Oh they looked at one another
    And they looked away.
  • ofri sharonhas quoted2 years ago
    That was the lover's hour,
    The hour for lies and him.
  • ofri sharonhas quoted2 years ago
    The laws of God, the laws of man,
    He may keep that will and can;
    Now I: let God and man decree
    Laws for themselves and not for me;
    And if my ways are not as theirs
    Let them mind their own affairs.
    Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
    Yet when did I make laws for them?
    Please yourselves, say I, and they
    Need only look the other way.
    But no, they will not; they must still
    Wrest their neighbour to their will,
    And make me dance as they desire
    With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
    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.
    They will be master, right or wrong;
    Though both are foolish, both are strong,
    And since, my soul, we cannot fly
    To Saturn or Mercury,
    Keep we must, if keep we can,
    These foreign laws of God and man.
  • ofri sharonhas quoted2 years ago
    Let me lie abed and rest:
    Ten thousand times I've done my best
  • ofri sharonhas quoted2 years ago
    But if I front the evening sky
    Silent on the west look I,
    And my comrade, stride for stride,
    Paces silent at my side,
    Comrade, look not on the west:
    'Twill have the heart out of your breast;
    'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far,
    Leagues beyond the sunset bar.
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