The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
source: - A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

source: - A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)
source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
source: - More Poems (1936) no. 36
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
Topics: Years, Twenties, Wearing White, Cherry Trees, Woodland
Topics: Over You, Littles, Lovers, Better Late Than Never, Before I Die
Topics: Flower, Farewell, Heart, I Liked You
Topics: Lying, Moon, Dust, World Is Round, Long Road
Topics: Perfect, Poetry, Understanding
Topics: Religious, Appreciated, Poetry Is
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
source: - "Housman 1897-1936". Book by Grant Richards, p. 100, 1942.
Topics: Beautiful, Strong, Morning, Sight And Sound
source: - A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
source: - A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Topics: Perfect, Understanding, Sometimes
source: - A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics
Topics: Light, Luck, Fleeting, Lovers Meeting
source: - A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation
Topics: Good Night, Sea, Land
Topics: Perception, Literature, Dull, Great Literature, Rawness
Topics: Lying, Sleep, Night, Bridegroom
source: - A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
Topics: Play, Long, Tunes, Enchantress
source: - A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
Topics: Stupid, Humorous, Sleep, Sleep Well, Chaps
source: - "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
Topics: Book, Men, Interesting
Topics: Love, Soul, Guilt, Born To Die
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
source: - Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
source: - Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
Topics: Men, Inspire, Mind, Ineptitude
Topics: Funny, Sarcastic, Air, Incorrigible, Diabolical
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
source: - Last Poems (1922) no. 9
Topics: Beer, Sky, Ale, Brewing Beer
Topics: Beer, Dust, Sky, Ale, Brewing Beer
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
Topics: Spring, Tree, Cherries, Spring Poems, Lyric Poetry
Topics: Easter, Spring, Wind, Easter Day, Lenten
Topics: Mother, Morning, Children, Bridegroom, Home Home
Topics: Friendship, Fire, Squares, Endless Roads
When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
source: - 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4
Topics: Philosophy, Historical, World, Personal History, Eliot
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
source: - Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54
source: - A. E. Housman (2006). “50 Poemas”, p.106, Editorial Renacimiento
source: - A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)
source: - 1922 Last Poems, no.12.
Topics: God, Letting Go, Men
source: - A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.154, Delphi Classics
Topics: Thinking, Peculiar, Vibrations, Corresponding, Transmit
Topics: Book, Reading, Needs, Reading Poetry
source: - Last Poems (1922) no. 10