
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
P. 600.
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 100.
An Old Man Over the Body of his Son from The London Literary Gazette (1st March 1823) Medallion Wafers
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
No. 47 ("For My Funeral"), st. 3.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899), The Man With the Hoe (1898)
Context: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes.
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?
“Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst."”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 241
"The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99
Context: p>Enough of dreams! No longer mock
The burdened hearts of men!
Not on the cloud, but on the rock
Build thou thy faith again;O range no more the realms of air,
Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
Thy hope was all too like despair:
Enough, enough of dreams.</p