English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. More Poems. 26. I Counsel You Beware. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).

Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен))

More Poems. 26. I Counsel You Beware

Good creatures, do you love your lives
        And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
        That cost me eighteen pence.

I need but stick it in my heart
        And down will come the sky,
And earth’s foundations will depart
        And all you folk will die.

Alfred Edward Housman’s other poems:

1. Last Poems. 19. In Midnights of November
2. Last Poems. 14. The Culprit
3. Last Poems. 20. The Night Is Freezing Fast
4. Last Poems. 27. The Sigh That Heaves the Grasses
5. More Poems. 14. The Farms of Home Lie Lost in Even

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