A. E. Housman Quotes

With rue my heart is laden / For golden friends I had, / For many a rose-lipt maiden / And many a lightfoot lad. - A. E. Housman

White in the moon the long road lies. - A. E. Housman

When I was one-and-twenty / I heard a wise man say, / `Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.' - A. E. Housman

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. - A. E. Housman

Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I. - A. E. Housman

Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground. - A. E. Housman

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and never be old. - A. E. Housman

The young man feels his pockets / And wonders what's to pay. - A. E. Housman

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. - A. E. Housman

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