• Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.

  Source: Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. mornings
2. fights
3. should
4. nights
5. whiles
6. starts

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Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts. by : A. E. Housman

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