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A. E. Housman Poems "Is my team ploughing, That I was used to drive And hear the harness jingle When I was man alive?" Ay, the horses trample, The harness jingles now; No change though you lie under The land you used to plough. "Is football playing Along the river shore, With la...
A. E. Housman Why does a date-palm lose its leaves in autumn? Why does every beautiful face grow in old age? Wrinkled like the back of a Libyan lizard? Why does a full head of hair get bald? Why is the tall, straight figure That divided the ranks like a spear Now bent almost do...
E. Housman — who is best known to the general public for his cycle of poems “A Shropshire Lad” — was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. Obviously, I don’t find any of this to be too surprising — after...
A. E. HousmanHUMAN FRAILTY[69]HUMAN FRAILTY: IMAGINATIVEMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.Aldous HuxleymoreoverGenerally speaking, human beings are extremely tolerant of nonsense.consequentlyThere are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of...
she even drops three hints: Lord Peter found the answer after consulting these books: “The Trial of Florence Maybrick; Dixon Mann’sForensic Medicine and Toxicology; … and A.E. Housman’sA Shropshire Lad.” The clues are in the reader’s hands. Using them, Lord Peter proceeds to trap ...
259. “So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night.”― Clemence Housman 260. “If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life–whether it’s writing, art, running, mus...
HOUSMAN (A.E.) Heavily revised autograph drafts of two poems, 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries' and 'Oh Were He and I Together', the first with the original title "Epitaph on a mercenary army" partly deleted and revised, comprising eight lines in two quatrains, beginning: "These, in...
46: “Work For Two” (A. E. Housman) 45: “Far From Shore” (Bill Bryson) 44: “Different Universes” (Bill Bryson) 43: “Nine Tenths of Alchemy” (Patrick Rothfuss) 42: “The Answer to the Great Question” (Douglas Adams) 41: “Shine Upon Them” (John Keats) 40: “A Good He...
One of the greatest American prose writers in history never graduated from high school and started his career as a poet under the influence of A. E. Housman and A. C. Swinburne. Afterward, he moved to New Orleans and started writing the novels and short stories which will make him famous...