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List of A. E. Housman Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 100 inspiring quotes by A. E. Housman.

About A. E. Housman

  • Born: March 26, 1859
  • Died: April 30, 1936
  • Occupation: Poet
    • Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking spins the heavy world around.
    Dance Drinking Dancing
    In every american there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
    Funny Sarcastic Air
    Happy bridegroom, hesper brings all desired and timely things. all whom morning sends to roam, hesper loves to lead them home. home return who him behold, child to mother, sheep to fold, bird to nest from wandering wide: happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
    Love Mother Morning
    Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, know you why you cannot rest? 'tis that every mother's son travails with a skeleton. lie down in the bed of dust; bear the fruit that bear you must; bring the eternal seed to light, and morn is all the same as night.
    Mother Lying Son
    They put arsenic in his meat and stared aghast to watch him eat; they poured strychnine in his cup and shook to see him drink it up.
    Food Cooking Meat
    Could man be drunk for ever with liquor, love, or fights, lief should i rouse at morning 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.
    Morning Lying Heart
    This is for all ill-treated fellows unborn and unbegot, for them to read when they're in trouble and i am not.
    Humorous Trouble Ill
    There, like the wind through woods in riot, through him the gale of life blew high; the tree of man was never quiet: then 'twas the roman, now 'tis i.
    Change Men Wind
    Now, of my threescore years and ten, twenty will not come again.
    Years Twenties Wearing White
    Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? and what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? and wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
    Hair Fists Prison
    The bells they sound on bredon, and still the steeples hum. "come all to church, good people"- oh, noisy bells, be dumb; i hear you, i will come.
    People Dumb Church
    His folly has not fellow beneath the blue of day that gives to man or woman his heart and soul away.
    Heart Men Blue
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