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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
A. E. Housman
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A. E. Housman
Age: 77 †
Born: 1859
Born: January 1
Died: 1936
Died: January 1
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Good night ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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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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Who made the world I cannot tell 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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