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 ...
My sweet companion, who hast ever been Beside me in all toils, refreshing oft My weary spirit with low whisperings Of hope that ...
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 hills have on their royal robes Of purple and of gold, And over their tops the autumn clouds In heaps are onward ...
``Here is no place for greeting: fly afar Before the absent sisterhood return. In my well--sembled agony, yon star I watched, whose westering ...
He was a blessed father; and he taught Us, his four children (for in that my day There were no schools as ...
Bright glowed the canvas, or with chastened light Of the wan moon was tinted; features mild With hopes angelic,--glorious visions wild, Fixed by ...
The simple folk once used to throng These mouldering steps beneath, And every child that passed along Its soft petitions breathe, In pious days ...
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 ...
O for a drosky and a pair,To flee from wet, ennui, and care,--To rush where Alps on Alps arise,And genuine ...
We gazed intent upon the murderous cave; Too fair a place, methinks, for deeds of blood. Above, the rocks, dappled with pendant ...
Blest be the taper which hath power to shed Light on the features of that angel--face; Blest be the sadness of this ...
We want but little: in the morning--tide, Bread to renew our energies; at noon, Cool shade, to quiet evening yielding soon; And then ...
From our aisles of places holy, From our dwellings calm and lowly, On the autumn breezes slowly Swells the sound of prayer: God! before ...
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