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.


Additional Poems, No. 16 (1937)

A. E. Housman Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.