| Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1923 - 370 pagina’s
...God knows why." There is a glorious expression of the outlawry of poets in the poem which begins : " The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can ; Not I." — and ends with reluctant resignation : " I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. . . .... | |
| 1960 - 188 pagina’s
...enforce them impartially. This attitude is well summed ap by the British poet, AE Housman, who said : The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can ; Nor I : let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me. And to quote another British poet,... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...3-4) CenHV; ChTr; FaBoCh; FaBoCo; FaBoNo; FaFP; LiTB; NOBL; OxBoLi The Laws of God, the Laws of Man 16 And i . (1. 1—4) HAP; MoAB; MoBrPo; WeW Be still, my soul 23 Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear... | |
| Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 pagina’s
...problems of authority become occasions of confrontation: of relative strength and coercive capacity. ... let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me . . But no, they will not; they must still Wrest their neighbour to their will, And make me dance as... | |
| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pagina’s
...Massachusetts, January 8, 1897.— Holmes, Address Delivered at the Dedication . . . , p. 18 (1897). 1008 The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that...are not as theirs Let them mind their own affairs. AE HOUSMAN, "The laws of God, the laws of man," line 1-6, Last Poems, in The Collected Poems, p. 79... | |
| Alfred Edward Housman - 1994 - 196 pagina’s
...all my pain? Let me lie abed and rest: Ten thousand times I've done my best And all's to do again. The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that...judge and much condemn, Yet when did I make laws for diem? Please yourselves, say I, and they Need only look the other way. But no, they will not; they... | |
| Kenneth Plummer - 1995 - 264 pagina’s
...couldn't have anybody put it better than Masefield did: The laws of God, the laws of man, Let them keep that will and can, Not I Let God and man decree laws for themselves, but not for me. And if my ways are not as theirs, Then let them mind their own affairs. Their deeds... | |
| Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pagina’s
...1 1 Love, and do what you will. Augustine of Hippo, Epist. Joannis Tractatus, vii (5th century) 14 The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can. AE Housman, Last Poems, 'Lancer' (1922) is There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing a supernatural... | |
| A. N. Wilson - 2003 - 772 pagina’s
...manifesto, against 'nature, heartless, witless nature', and against 'the laws of God, the laws of man'.40 The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that...God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.41 The perfectly formed, tautly contained lyrics are time-bombs of blasphemy and sexually frustrated... | |
| Ricardo Defarges - 2005 - 96 pagina’s
...cities not built to last and charms devised in vain, pours the confounding main. («More poems», XLV) THE laws of God, the laws of man, he may keep that...and man decree laws for themselves and not for me; I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made. They will be master, right or wrong; though both... | |
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