He notes that the "stuff of life to knit" him blew hither from the "twelve-winded sky" in his "From Far, from Eve and Morning."
He noted that "Lovers lying two and two / Ask not whom they sleep beside" when they die and join the "nation that is not" in his "When I Watch the Living Meet." He notes that the "stuff of life to knit" him blew hither from the "twelve-winded sky" in his "From Far, from Eve and Morning." A poem in which it is claimed that we should "look into the pewter pot / To see the world as the world's not" includes the statement that "malt does more than Milton can / To justify God's ways to man" and begins with the assertion "Terence, this is stupid stuff." FTP, name this British poet who also wrote about a "smart lad" who slips "betimes away" in "To an Athlete Dying Young," best known for his A Shropshire Lad.
He noted that "Lovers lying two and two / Ask not whom they sleep beside" when they die and join the "nation that is not" in his "When I Watch the Living Meet."
Alfred Edward Housman