A. E. Housman Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.9, Courier Corporation

• The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Midnight, Orion

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

  A. E. Housman

  Hope, Lying, Believe

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

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

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Ties, Lovers

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

• Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

  A. E. Housman

  Mother, Lying, Son

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.67, Delphi Classics

• Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning 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.

  A. E. Housman

  Morning, Lying, Heart

  Last Poems (1922) no. 10

• White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Moon, Feet

  A. E. Housman (2017). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  A. E. Housman

  Life, War, Lying

  More Poems (1936) no. 36

• Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
  Breath's aware that will not keep.
  Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

  A. E. Housman

  Time, Travel, Lying

• White in the moon the long road lies.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Moon, White

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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