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Letter "A" » A. E. Housman Quotes
«And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.»
«Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.»
«No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.»
«But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their hands upon their hearts.»
«Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.»
«Mithridates, he died old.»
«A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string.»
«Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am a greater scholar than Wordsworth and I am a greater poet than Porson. So I fall betwixt and between.»
«If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
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bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, razor, strays
«`Come all to church, good people,' - / Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; / I hear you, I will come.»
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