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Alfred Edward Housman est un philologue et poète britannique né le 26 mars 1859 à Bromsgrove et mort le 30 avril 1936 à Cambridge. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. mars 1859 – 30. avril 1936   •   Autres noms آلفرد ادوارد هاوسمن, A. E. Housman
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Alfred Edward Housman: Citations en anglais

“When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
"The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue."
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

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A.E. Housman livre A Shropshire Lad

No. 13, st. 2.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

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The Name and Nature of Poetry

“Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea
And still the sea is salt.”

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A.E. Housman livre A Shropshire Lad

Source: A Shropshire Lad

“Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.”

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“The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."

(, 3 October 1892)”

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Source: Selected Prose

“The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came.”

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Source: More Poems

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

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Source: More Poems

“Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.”

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A.E. Housman livre A Shropshire Lad

No. 62, st. 3.
Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

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

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No. 40.
Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
I never soiled with such a deed.”

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No. 19, st. 2.
Source: More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.”

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No. 23, st. 4.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
The stroke of midnight ceases,
And I lie down alone.”

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No. 11, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at mornings
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.”

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No. 10, st. 2.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

“Oh, when I was in love with you
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.

And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.”

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No. 18.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers
Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.”

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No. 9, st. 1.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

“Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.”

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No. 6, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”

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No. 2, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“I rather doubt if man really has much to gain by substituting peace for strife, as you and Jesus Christ recommend. Sic notus Ulixes? do you think you can outwit the resourceful malevolence of Nature? God is not mocked, as St. Paul long ago warned the Galatians. When man gets rid of a great trouble he is easier for a while, but not for long: Nature instantly sets to work to weaken his power of sustaining trouble, and very soon seven pounds is as heavy as fourteen pounds used to be. Last Easter Monday a young woman threw herself in the Lea because her dress looked so shabby amongst the holiday crowd: in other times and countries women have been ravished by half-a-dozen dragoons and taken it less to heart. It looks to me as if the state of mankind always had been and always would be a state of just tolerable discomfort.”

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"Letter to Gilbert Murray" (April 23, 1900).

“Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

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Saturae of Juvenal (Cambridge University Press, [1905] 1931) p. xi.

“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over
There'll be time enough to sleep.”

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No. 4 ("Reveille"), st. 6.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“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.”

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No. 9, st. 7.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

“His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.”

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No. 14, st. 3.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.”

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From a list of insults drafted by A E Housman, and posthumously published in Laurence Housman's A. E. H. (1937) pp. 89-90. The name was left blank in the original, but was intended to be filled in and used when a suitable subject should turn up.

“Far in a western brookland
That bred me long ago
The poplars stand and tremble
By pools I used to know.”

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No. 52, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.”

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"Letter to Neilson Abeel" (October 4, 1935).

“A man who possesses common sense and the use of reason must not expect to learn from treatises or lectures on textual criticism anything that he could not, with leisure and industry, find out for himself. What the lectures and treatises can do for him is to save him time and trouble by presenting to him immediately considerations which would in any case occur to him sooner or later.”

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"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921

“Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.”

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No. 48, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“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.”

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No. 24 ("Epithalamium"), st. 3.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

“I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.”

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A remark made in conversation, according to Grant Richards Housman 1897-1936 (1942) p. 100.
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