"There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts……" — A. E. Housman
"There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs."
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84 Quotes by A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman has 84 quotes on this site.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and…
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure…
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in…
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy…
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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them…
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Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why…
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but…
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Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has…
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and…
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My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea:…
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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the…
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences…
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Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of…
— Ronald Reagan
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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In…
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Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse…
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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