All Things Human

Women
by Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Women have no wilderness in them,
They are provident instead,
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.
They do not see cattle cropping red winter grass,
They do not hear
Snow water going down under culverts
Shallow and clear.
They wait, when [...]

In Memory of Barry Cornwall
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
I.
In the garden of death, where the singers whose names are deathless
One with another make music unheard of men,
Where the dead sweet roses fade not of [...]

Infant Eyes
by Ernest Myers (1844-1921)
Blood of my blood, bone of my bone,
Heart of my being’s heart,
Strange visitant, yet very son;
All this, and more, thou art.
In thy soft lineaments I trace,
More winning daily grown,
The sweetness of thy mother’s face
Transfiguring my own.
That grave but all untroubled gaze,
So rapt yet never dim,
Seems following o’er their starry ways
The wings [...]

“If I should die tonight”
by Arabella Eugenia Smith (1844-1916)
If I should die tonight,
My friends would look upon my quiet face,
Before they laid it in its resting place,
And deem that death had left it almost fair,
And laying snow-white flowers against my hair,
Would smooth it down with tearful tenderness,
And fold my hands with lingering [...]

The Widow at Windsor
by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
In Honor of Victoria Day