Quotes by : A.E. Housman

How clear, how lovely bright,How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play;How heaven laughs out....

If it chance your eye offends you,Pluck it out lad, and be sound:'Twill hurt, but here are salves to....

It nods and curtseys and recoversWhen the wind blows above,The nettle on the graves of loversThat hanged....

Westward on the high-hilled plainsWhere for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veinsFrets the....

Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore;Our only portion is the estate....

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest?'Tis that every mother's sonTravails....

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed for....

To stand up straight and tread the turning mill,To lie flat and know nothing and be still,Are the two....

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

IVREVEILLEWake: the silver dusk returningUp the beach of darkness brims,And the ship of sunrise burningStrands....