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Letter "A" » A. E. Housman Quotes
«O Queen of air and darkness,I think 'tis truth you say,And I shall die to-morrow;But you will die to-day.»
«Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills, / What spires, what farms are those?»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
blows, farms, hills, Hill Country, Into My Heart, spire, spires, yon
«The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not aware / He has been eaten by the bear.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
devoured, eaten, grizzly, grizzly bear, huge, infant, The Bear
«The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down alone.»
«Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.»
«When I was one-and-twenty / I heard a wise man say, / `Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.'»
«Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.»
«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.»
«With rue my heart is laden / For golden friends I had, / For many a rose-lipt maiden / And many a lightfoot lad.»
«They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
carry back, coiner, Die in, lads, mintage, Old Glory
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