Poem by Alfred Edward Housman

Additional Poems. 16. Some Can Gaze and not Be Sick

Some can gaze and not be sick
But I could never learn the trick.
        There’s this to say for blood and breath,
        They give a man a taste for death.

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2. More Poems. 28. He, Standing Hushed, a Pace or Two Apart
3. More Poems. 37. I Did Not Lose My Heart in Summer’s Even
4. Last Poems. 33. When the Eye of Day Is Shut
5. A Shropshire Lad. 41. In My Own Shire, if I Was Sad

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