Quotes by : A.E. Housman

Along the field as we came byA year ago, my love and I,The aspen over stile and stoneWas talking to itself....

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

You smile upon your friend to-day,To-day his ills are over;You hearken to the lover's say,And happy is....

White in the moon the long road lies,The moon stands blank above;White in the moon the long road liesThat....

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

And friends abroad must bear in mindFriends at home they leave behind.Oh, I shall be stiff and coldWhen....

Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon....

To-day I shall be strong,No more shall yield to wrong,Shall squander life no more;Days lost, I know not....

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood.

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