#Lying Quotes #Midnight Quotes #Orion Quotes
“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
“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
“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.” A. E. Housman
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.” A. E. Housman
“They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.” A. E. Housman
Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poet
Hayden Carruth Poet
Ivor Gurney Composer
Laurence Housman Playwright
Ralph Vaughan Williams Composer
Thomas Hardy Novelist
W. H. Auden Poet
William Wordsworth Poet
