The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Sixth (Henry Alford Poems)
Erewhile of Death and human suffering Spoke we, and lingered, as in some dark wood The pilgrim lingers ere he dare approach The ...
Henry Alford Poems on Heaven (36 Poems)
The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Fourth. (Henry Alford Poems)
Rememberest thou that solemn eventide When last we parted? we had wandered forth Down that steep hill--path to the level moor; It was ...
The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Second. (Henry Alford Poems)
My sweet companion, who hast ever been Beside me in all toils, refreshing oft My weary spirit with low whisperings Of hope that ...
The School Of The Heart. Lesson The First (Henry Alford Poems)
The spring is coming round--the buds have burst, And on the coppice--path, and in the bower, The leaping spray of sunlight leaf--inwrought Sports ...
The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Third. (Henry Alford Poems)
The dews descend, the soft and gentle dews; Over the homeward meadows, stretching forth Far into the gray mist, the cattle lie Most ...
Lacrymae Paterae (Henry Alford Poems)
I. This tranquil Sabbath morn hath hushed the earth Into unwonted calm. The clear pale hills Lie beneath level lines of sunny clouds, Walling ...
The Ballad Of Glastonbury (Henry Alford Poems)
The hills have on their royal robes Of purple and of gold, And over their tops the autumn clouds In heaps are onward ...
A Dream (Henry Alford Poems)
The night that is now past hath been to me A time of wakeful, sleepful fancies: oft Have I been whirled aloft ...
The Abbot Of Muchelnaye. Canto The Second. (Henry Alford Poems)
It is the solemn midnight; and the moon Hard by the zenith holds her solemn state, And yon flushed star will westward ...
A Spring Scene. (Henry Alford Poems)
MOTHER. So thou hast brought thy bosom full of daisies And gilded celandine. There, pour them forth-- A pretty April snow--storm. Now enfold Thine ...
Hymn To The Sea (Henry Alford Poems)
Who shall declare the secret of thy birth, Thou old companion of the circling earth? And having reached with keen poetic sight Ere ...
Lines Written October 23, 1836, A Few Hours After The Birth Of My First Child. (Henry Alford Poems)
Beautiful babe, I gaze upon thy face That bears no trace of earth: thy silk--soft cheek Gladdens me even to tears, and ...
How We Buried Him. A Tribute To The Memory Of The Late Canon Chesshyre, St. Martin’s, Canterbury. (Henry Alford Poems)
Where thickest on that eastward hill the grassy mounds are piled, We laid him till the glorious morn beside his waiting ...
A Crimean Thought. (Henry Alford Poems)
Again those heavy tidings. On the breeze Laden with death, they come. A thousand more Stiff on the sod of Tauris: yon ...
To A Drop Of Dew. (Henry Alford Poems)
Sun--begotten, ocean--born, Sparkling in the summer morn Underneath me as I pass O'er the hill--top on the grass, All among thy fellow--drops On the speary ...
Ballad. (Henry Alford Poems)
Rise, sons of merry England, from mountain and from plain; Let each light up his spirit, let none unmoved remain; The morning ...
Amor Coelestis (Henry Alford Poems)
I have a longing to be free; The soul that in me hides Its mouldering fires, unwillingly Its day of liberation bides. Clouds, that ...
In A Letter From Scotland (Henry Alford Poems)
O for a drosky and a pair,To flee from wet, ennui, and care,--To rush where Alps on Alps arise,And genuine ...
Written In Aid Of The Leicester Lunatic Asylum. (Henry Alford Poems)
Light ye the torch,-- The torch that hath expired; The light with which was fired Chamber and hall and porch: But now the house ...
Written During An Aurora Borealis, January 7, 1831 (Henry Alford Poems)
Lo, where they play, the fiery squadrons bright,Along the spangled azure of the night;Waving aloft their ensigns, where the whileWheels ...
To A Moonbeam By Our Fireside. (Henry Alford Poems)
What dost thou here? A drop of strange cold light After thy airy flight Of many a thousand league of sky? Like glow--worm, or ...
Midnight Thoughts (Henry Alford Poems)
'Tis just the moment when time hangs in doubt Between the parting and the coming day: The deep clock tolleth twelve: and ...
A Truant Hour. (Henry Alford Poems)
The golden stars keep watch aloft; Unmarked the moments glide along, Save that around me scatters oft Yon nightingale his pearls of song:-- The ...
The Dead. (Henry Alford Poems)
The dead alone are great! While heavenly plants abide on earth, The soil is one of dewless dearth; But when they die, a ...
Hymn For A Missal. (Henry Alford Poems)
Thou that art the Father's Word,Thou that art the Lamb of God,Thou that art the Virgin's Son,Thou that savest souls ...
A Hymn For Family Worship (Henry Alford Poems)
Saviour of them that trust in Thee,Once more, with supplicating cries,We lift the heart and bend the knee,And bid Devotion's ...
Sonnet XCVI. Ascension Day, 1845 (Henry Alford Poems)
They stood and gazed into the summer sky, That earnest band of holy men and true: It was no vision that might ...
Sonnet XLVII. “There is a bright space in yon rolling cloud” (Henry Alford Poems)
There is a bright space in yon rolling cloud Betokening the presence of the moon;-- Into the pure sky she will travel ...
Sonnet LVIII. Descent Of The Same. (Henry Alford Poems)
Glory on glory greets our wondering sight As we wind down these slopes; mountain and plain Robed in rich sunshine, and the ...
Sonnet LXXXIII. To A Friend Concerned In Education. (Henry Alford Poems)
Force not to over--growth the subject mind: Heaven's the power that spread the native soil; The tillage only asks thy careful toil, On ...