LXII: Terence, This is Stupid Stuff (A E Housman Poems)
Terence, this is stupid stuff! You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
Terence, this is stupid stuff! You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away, The doors clap to, ...
`What sound awakened me, I wonder, For now 'tis dumb.'`Wheels on the road most like, or thunder: Lie down; 'twas ...
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?And what has he been after that they groan ...
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?And what has he been after that they groan ...
The laws of God, the laws of man,He may keep that will and can;Not I: let God and man decreeLaws ...
For these of old the trader Unpearled the Indian seas,The nations of the nadir Were diamondless for these; A people ...
Star and coronal and bell April underfoot renews,And the hope of man as well Flowers among the morning dews.Now the ...
There pass the careless people That call their souls their own: Here by the road I loiter, How idle and ...
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road ...
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say,It irked you, and I promised To throw the thought ...
When I would muse in boyhood The wild green woods among,And nurse resolves and fancies Because the world was young,It ...
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised To throw the ...
If truth in hearts that perish Could move the powers on high, I think the love I bear you Should ...
Home is the sailor, home from sea: Her far-borne canvas furledThe ship pours shining on the quay The plunder of ...
The mill-stream, now that noises cease,Is all that does not hold its peace;Under the bridge it murmurs by,And here are ...
It is no gift I tender, A loan is all I can;But do not scorn the lender; Man gets no ...
The street sounds to the soldiers' tread, And out we troop to see: A single redcoat turns his head, He ...
Westward on the high-hilled plains Where for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veins Frets the changeless ...
Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers Are lying in field and lane, With dandelions to tell the hours That ...
There pass the careless people That call their souls their own: Here by the road I loiter, How idle and ...
The Sun at noon to higher air, Unharnessing the silver Pair That late before his chariot swam, Rides on the ...
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road ...
The street sounds to the soldiers' tread, And out we troop to see: A single redcoat turns his head, He ...
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away, The doors clap to, ...
If truth in hearts that perish Could move the powers on high, I think the love I bear you Should ...
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists? And what has he been after that they ...
Once in the wind of morning I ranged the thymy wold; The world-wide air was azure And all the brooks ...
The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and ...
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
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