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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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  • I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
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  • The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
    Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman).
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  • We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
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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.
    More Poems (1936) No. 19, st. 2
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