All Things Human

To Hannah
by Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
Spirit girl to whom

Morning
by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh and the shadows flee;
Fairer than morning, lovelier than daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness I am with Thee.
Alone with Thee, amid the mystic shadows,
The solemn hush of nature newly born;
Alone with Thee in [...]

Juventus Mundi
by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
List a tale a fairy sent us
Fresh from dear Mundi Juventus.
When Love and all the world was young,
And birds conversed as well as sung;
And men still faced this fair creation
With humor, heart, imagination.
Who come hither from Morocco
Every spring on the Sirocco.
In russet she, and he in yellow,
Singing ever clear and mellow,

Midnight at Geneva
by Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897)
The azure lake is argent now
Beneath the pale moonshine:
I seek a sign of hope in heaven:
Fair Polestar! thou are mine.
A thousand other beacons blaze;
I follow thee alone
Beyond the shadowy Jura range,
The Jura, and the Rhone;
Beyond the purpling vineyards trim
Of sunny Clos Vougeot;
Beyond where Seine

Poetical Epistle to Mrs. Green
by Francis Grose (1731-1791)
Hoping no offence, my dear Madam Green,
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