Death Quote by A.E. Housman

“I to my perils Of cheat and charmer Came clad in armour By stars benign. Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But…

— A.E. Housman

“There pass the careless people That call their souls their own: Here by the road I loiter, How idle and alone. Ah, past the…

— A.E. Housman

“Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the…

— A.E. Housman

“Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy hangs the…

— A.E. Housman

“Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s ways to…

— A.E. Housman

“In my own shire, if I was sad Homely comforters I had: The earth, because my heart was sore, Sorrowed for the son she…

— A.E. Housman

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

— A.E. Housman

“They say my verse is sad: no wonder. Its narrow measure spans Rue for eternity, and sorrow Not mine, but man's This is for…

— A.E. Housman

“Diffugere Nives Horace, Odes, iv, 7 The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws And grasses in the mead renew their birth, The…

— A.E. Housman

“The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought…

— A.E. Housman

“Along the field as we came by A year ago, my love and I, The aspen over stile and stone Was talking to itself…

— A.E. Housman

“Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin,…

— A.E. Housman