A. E. Housman Quotes

But from my grave across my brow. Plays no wind of healing now,. And fire and ice within me fight. Beneath the suffocating night.

A. E. Housman

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• But from my grave across my brow. Plays no wind of healing now,. And fire and ice within me fight. Beneath the suffocating night.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Night
  • Fire
  • Wind