All Things Human

I Will Praise the Lord at all Times
by William Cowper (1731-1800)
Winter has a joy for me,
While the Saviour

You are Old, Father William
by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Aunt Helen
by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
Now when she died there was silence in heaven
And silence at her end of the street.
The shutters were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet

Of English Verse
by Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Poets may boast, as safely vain,
Their work shall with the world remain;
Both bound together live or die,
The verses and the prophecy.
But who can hope his lines should long
Last in a daily changing tongue?
While they are new, env`y prevails,
And as that dies, our language fails.
When architects have done their part,
The matter [...]

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