#Heart Quotes #Giving Quotes #Rubies Quotes
“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.” A. E. Housman
“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.” A. E. Housman
“Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.” A. E. Housman
“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.” A. E. Housman
“White in the moon the long road lies.” 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
