Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

A. E. Housman Quotes: Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
         

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.


A. E. Housman
Check all other quotes by A. E. Housman

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"A. E. Housman Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Sun. 22 Dec. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Lovers-lying-two-and-two-Ask-not-331645>.





Check out


Other quotes of A. E. Housman


And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.



Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.



That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.



They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.



Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.



Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.



On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.



The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.



The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.



Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.





Other quotes you may like



In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.

In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.



The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.



It's a season of life, if your granted peace, freedom and you got the right person to love.

It's a season of life, if your granted peace, freedom and you got the right person to love.



Humans will do the right thing... just a decade late

Humans will do the right thing... just a decade late



A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.



A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.



My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.

My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.



Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent



The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.". Author of this quote is A. E. Housman. This quote is about lovers, all night, two, sleep, turns, lying, night,.