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 ...
Henry Alford Poems on Kings & Queens (10 Poems)
The Seasons: A Masque. As Represented By Father Christmas And His Attendants (Henry Alford Poems)
Part I.The Prologue was given by Father Christmas habited in a red robe, with a white beard and an icy ...
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 ...
Psalm XXIV (Henry Alford Poems)
CHORUS OF ANGELS. The Earth is God's; the fullness tooOf all that therein is;Upon the floods he founded it,And built it ...
February 10, 1840 (Henry Alford Poems)
They saw thee kneel with lowly mien, In faith a child, in state a queen; No circlet girt thy marble brow While at ...
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 ...
Sonnet X. To Mary (Henry Alford Poems)
On thy young brow, my sister, twenty years Have shed their sunshine; and this April morn Looks on thee fresh and gladsome, ...
Sonnet XCVIII. “”There is one baptism:” thus wrote holy Paul-” (Henry Alford Poems)
"There is one baptism:'' thus wrote holy Paul-- Behold its only trace, yon ancient stone Forth to dishonour and destruction thrown, Catching the ...
Sonnet XXIII. The Death-Chamber. (Henry Alford Poems)
Still as a moonlight ruin is thy form. Or meekness of carved marble, that hath prayed For ages on a tomb; serenely ...
Sonnet LII. To The Yellow Cistus. (Henry Alford Poems)
Flower, that with thy silken tapestry Of flexile petals interwove with green, Clothest the mountain walls of this calm scene; We, a love--led ...