All Things Human

Per Nozze (Lettera alla Sposa)
by Aleardo Aleardi (1812-1878)

Nata in terra di forti, orfana bella
Dagli occhi azzurri e da le trecce d

Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday
by Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

So let me have the rouge again,
  And comb my hair the curly way.
The poor young men, the dear young men
  They

Goodbye!
by George John Whyte-Melville (1821-1878)

Falling leaf and fading tree,
Lines of white in a sullen sea,
Shadows rising on you and me;
Shadows rising on you and me;
The swallows are making them ready to fly,
Wheeling out on a windy sky.
Goodbye Summer! Goodbye! Goodbye!
Goodbye Summer! Goodbye! Goodbye!

Hush! a voice from the far away!

The Death of the Flowers
by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit

Birthday Gifts (For a Child)
by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)

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Why do you look sad, my Minnie?
   Tell me darling