A. E. Housman Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

  A. E. Housman

  Cheer, Silence, Sound

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.13, Courier Corporation

• These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

  A. E. Housman

  Fall, August, Heaven

  1922 Last Poems, no.37,'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'.

• Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

  A. E. Housman

  Good Night, Sea, Land

• Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

  A. E. Housman

  Strong, Heaven, Earth

  A. E. Housman, “Be Still, My Soul, Be Still; The Arms You Bear Are Brittle”

• Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

  A. E. Housman

  Air, Earth, Tomorrow

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.143, Delphi Classics

• We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

  A. E. Housman

  Peace, Darkness, Earth

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.47, Delphi Classics

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