A. E. Housman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Men, Blue

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.10, Courier Corporation

• Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Humorous, Sleep

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 1 (1896)

• 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.

  A. E. Housman

  Grief, Land, Giving

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

• When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. 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.

  A. E. Housman

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Giving, Rubies

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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