 | 1906 - 910 páginas
...cholera. Once — that's enough ! WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY BY AE HOUSMAN When I was one-and-twetity I heard a wise man say, " Give crowns and pounds and...away and rubies But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, " The heart... | |
 | Ralph Henry Barbour - 1913 - 198 páginas
...her voice joined the piano, so softly, though, that he had to lean forward to catch the words. When 1 was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, " Give crowns and pounds and guineas Hut not your heart away: Ciive pearls away and rubies. Hut keep your fancy free." But l was one-and-twenty.... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 páginas
...come again, And take from seventy years a score, It only leaves me fifty more. Loveliest of Treet. When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say:...crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away." A Shropshire Lad, To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring you home, And set you... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1920 - 272 páginas
...keep. Up, lad : when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep. WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY 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,... | |
 | William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - 1922 - 544 páginas
...beauty ; and AE Housman's collection of verses, "A Shropshire Lad," for its extraordinary simplicity. "When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,...free.' But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me." Among the newer poets Wilfrid W. Gibson, Siegfried Sassoon, William H. Davies, Ralph Hodgson, Lascelles... | |
 | Alfred Edward Housman - 1922 - 112 páginas
...not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride. XIII WHEN I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, ' Give crowns and pounds and guinea* Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty, No use to... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 442 páginas
...keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep. WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,...But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, "The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain;... | |
 | Franklin Pierce Adams, Deems Taylor - 1925 - 300 páginas
...ALDBICH. By permission of, and arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflln Co. "WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY" WHEN I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,...But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, "The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain;... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Drew - 1926 - 296 páginas
...of that moment in a man's life which Housman has sung in A Shropshire Lad: When I was one and twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away: Tis paid with sighs a-plenty And sold for endless rue." And I am two and twenty And oh, 'tis true,... | |
 | Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - 1928 - 568 páginas
...are in peace, For they know when their shepherd is nigh. WILLIAM BLAKB 71 WHEN I WAS ONE AND TWENTY When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,...But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I^was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, 'The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis... | |
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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. 
