All Things Human

Serenade
by Edward Coote Pinkney (1802-1828)
Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes,
On which, than on the lights above,
There hang more destinies.
Night

The Need to Love
by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
The need to love that all the stars obey
Entered my heart and banished all beside.
Bare were the gardens where I used to stray;
Faded the flowers that one time satisfied.
Before the beauty of the west on fire,
The moonlit hills from cloister-casements [...]

Music
by Walter De La Mare (1873-1956)
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know,
And all her lovely things even lovelier grow;
Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees
Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies.
When music sounds, out of the water rise
Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes,
Rapt in strange dreams burns each enchanted face,
With solemn echoing [...]

The Wall Street Pit
by Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
I see the hell of faces surge and whirl,
Like malestrom in the ocean

Fears in Solitude
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
(written in April 1798, during the alarm of an invasion)
A green and silent spot, amid the hills,
A small and silent dell! O