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A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman

British poet

Lived from: 1859 - 1936

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 march 1859 Died: 30 april 1936

  • Lovers lying two and two 
 Ask not whom they sleep beside, 
 And the bridegroom all night through 
 Never turns him to the bride.
  • When I was one-and-twenty 
 I heard him say again, 
 The heart out of the bosom 
 Was never given in vain; 
 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty 
 And sold for endless rue. 
 And I am two-and-twenty 
 And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
  • 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 difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
    The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
    A. E. Housman
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