John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
A E Housman 1859-1936 John Bartlett
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Now, of my three score years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy years a score, It only leaves me fifty more. |
Loveliest of Trees. |
2 |
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say: “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away.” |
A Shropshire Lad. |
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To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. |
To an Athlete dying young. |