Quotes by : A.E. Housman

All knots that lovers tieAre tied to sever.Here shall your sweetheart lie,Untrue for ever.

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

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

I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with misery,....

The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do:My pleasures are plenty, my troubles are two.But....

Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and....

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

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

Terence, this is stupid stuff:You eat your victuals fast enough;There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,To....

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen....