“I to my perils Of cheat and charmer Came clad in armour By stars benign. Hope lies to mortals And most believe… — A.E. Housman Trouble Copy Share Image
“There pass the careless people That call their souls their own: Here by the road I loiter, How idle and alone. Ah,… — A.E. Housman Alone Copy Share Image
“Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker… — A.E. Housman Death Copy Share Image
“Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy… — A.E. Housman Nature Copy Share Image
“Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s… — A.E. Housman Alcohol Copy Share Image
“In my own shire, if I was sad Homely comforters I had: The earth, because my heart was sore, Sorrowed for the… — A.E. Housman Autumn Copy Share Image
“If it chance your eye offends you, Pluck it out lad, and be sound: 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend… — A.E. Housman Poetry Copy Share Image
“They say my verse is sad: no wonder. Its narrow measure spans Rue for eternity, and sorrow Not mine, but man's This… — A.E. Housman Man Copy Share Image
“Diffugere Nives Horace, Odes, iv, 7 The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws And grasses in the mead renew their… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home… — A.E. Housman Cheer Copy Share Image
“Along the field as we came by A year ago, my love and I, The aspen over stile and stone Was talking… — A.E. Housman Love Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not… — A.E. Housman Knowledge Copy Share Image
“It nods and curtseys and recovers When the wind blows above, The nettle on the graves of lovers That hanged themselves for… — A.E. Housman Love Copy Share Image
“Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are;… — A.E. Housman Beauty Copy Share Image
“Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore; Our only portion is the estate… — A.E. Housman Mankind Copy Share Image
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.” — A.E. Housman Creation Copy Share Image
“First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? Second don: State the alternative preferred, With reasons… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“When I watch the living meet, And the moving pageant file Warm and breathing through the street Where I lodge a little… — A.E. Housman Life Copy Share Image
“The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.” — A.E. Housman Trees Copy Share Image
“Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms… — A.E. Housman Happiness Copy Share Image
“VIII 'Farewell to barn and stack and tree, Farewell to Severn shore. Terence, look your last at me, For I come home… — A.E. Housman Dead man Copy Share Image
“When the lad for longing sighs, Mute and dull of cheer and pale, If at death's own door he lies, Maiden, you… — A.E. Housman Death Copy Share Image
“Here are the skies, the planets seven, And all the starry train: Content you with the mimic heaven, And on the earth… — A.E. Housman Fitness Copy Share Image
“If truth in hearts that perish Could move the powers on high, I think the love I bear you Should make you… — A.E. Housman Love Copy Share Image
“Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst: If in the breathless night I too Shiver now,… — A.E. Housman Cold Copy Share Image
