All Things Human

The Pains of Sleep
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
It hath not been my use to pray
With moving lips or bended knees;
But silently, by slow degrees,
My spirit I to Love compose,
In humble trust mine eye-lids close,
With reverential resignation,
No wish conceived, no thought exprest,
Only a sense of supplication;
A sense o

Break of Day in the Trenches
by Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
The darkness crumbles away
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet

Maker of Heaven and Earth
by Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895)
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colours,
He made their tiny wings.
The rich [...]

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
The breaking waves dash’d high
On a stern and rock-bound coast,
And the woods against a stormy sky
Their giant branches toss’d;
And the heavy night hung dark,
The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moor’d their [...]