Henry Alford Poems on Birth Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

My sweet companion, who hast ever been Beside me in all toils, refreshing oft My weary spirit with low whisperings Of hope that ...

The hills have on their royal robes Of purple and of gold, And over their tops the autumn clouds In heaps are onward ...

I.Ye must not die--your cheek is red,Ye have not lost your bloom;We shall be loth when ye are deadTo lay ...

Who shall declare the secret of thy birth, Thou old companion of the circling earth? And having reached with keen poetic sight Ere ...

Methinks my spirit is too free To come before thy presence high, Obtruding on the earth and sky Aught but their solemn joy ...

Freed from the womb, and from the bounds With which the stepdame infancy Our days of pupilage surrounds, We spring up beautiful and ...

Stand up before your GodYou army bold and bright,Saints martyrs and confessorsIn your robes of white;The Church below doth challenge ...

The calm of blessed Night Is on Judaea's hills; The full--orbed moon with cloudless light Is sparkling on their rills: One spot above the ...

I have a longing to be free; The soul that in me hides Its mouldering fires, unwillingly Its day of liberation bides. Clouds, that ...

Refresh me with the bright blue violet, And put the pale faint--scented primrose near, For I am breathing yet: Shed not one silly ...

Blest be the taper which hath power to shed Light on the features of that angel--face; Blest be the sadness of this ...

'Twere better far from noon to eventide To sit and feel sad care, and fence the while The patient spirit for unwonted ...

Henry Alford Poems on Birth (12 Poems)