All Things Human

Intimacy
by Edgell Rickword (1898-1982)
Since I have seen you do those intimate things
That other men but dream of; lull asleep
The sinister dark forest of your hair
And tie the bows that stir on your calm breast
Faintly as leaves that shudder in their sleep;
Since I have seen your stocking swallow up,
A swift black wind, the flame of your [...]

In a Herber Green Asleep Whereas I Lay
by Robert Wever (mid sixteenth century)
In a herber green, asleep where as I lay,
The birds sang sweet in the middes of the day;
I dreamed fast of mirth and play:
In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure.
Methought I walked still to and fro,
And from her company [...]

Dream-Ship
by Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
I set my dream-ships floating
Upon the tides of sleep.
Beneath whose moving waters
Unfathomed currents creep;
And one was made of roses
With flowering mast and spars,
And one was made of music,
And one was made of stars:
One was all joy and sorrow
Made from my own heart-strings,
And one was like a cradle
With sails like angels

The Fond Lover: A Ballad
by William Falconer (1732-1769)
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A nymph of every charm possess

A Year Passes
by Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Beyond the porcelain fence of the pleasure-garden,
I hear the frogs in the blue-green rice-fields;
But the sword-shaped moon
Has cut my heart in two.