All Things Human

My Garden
by Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Fern

A Forsaken Garden
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,
At the sea-down

Verses Wrote on Her Death-Bed at Bath, to Her Husband in London
by Mary Monck (circa. 1678-1715)
Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ,
Thou pleasing source of all my earthly joy:
Thou tend

Terence
by Julius Caesar (100?-44 B.C.)
Tu quoque tu in summis, o dimidiate Menander,
Poneris, et merito, puri sermonis amator.
Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adjuncta foret vis
Comica, ut aequato virtus polleret honore
Cum Graecis, neque hac despectus parte jaceres!
Unum hoc maceror ac doleo tibi desse, Terenti.

The Frogs
by Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
I
Breathers of wisdom won without a quest,
Quaint uncouth dreamers, voices high and strange;
Flutists of lands where beauty hath no change,
And wintry grief is a forgotten guest,
Sweet murmurers of everlasting rest,
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