All Things Human

The Tramp
by Edgar Guest (1881-1959)
Eagerly he took my dime,
Then shuffled on his way,
Thick with sin and filth and grime,
But I wondered all that day
How the man had gone astray.
Not to him the dime I gave;
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Home! Sweet Home!
by John Howard Payne (1791-1852)

Variations on a Theme of Laforgue
by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Youth as it opens out discloses
The sinister metempsychosis
Of lilies dead and turned to roses
Red as an angry dawn.
But lilies, remember, are grave-side flowers,
While slow bright rose-leaves sail
Adrift on the music of happiest hours;
And those lilies, cold and pale,
Hide fiery roses beneath [...]

Casey at the Bat
by Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
The Outlook wasn

Cleopatra
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
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