29046. Housman, A.E. (Alfred Edward). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	29046
QUOTATION:	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.
ATTRIBUTION:	A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman (1859–1936), British poet. repr. In The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (1939). A Shropshire Lad, no. 13 (1896).
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:	Housman Collection.