106 Quotes by A.E. Housman

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.