On A Cyclamen (Henry Alford Poems)
This fragrant plant from sunny Italy, Plucked by our passing hand, was homeward brought: Memorial of that favoured clime to be, And minister ...
This fragrant plant from sunny Italy, Plucked by our passing hand, was homeward brought: Memorial of that favoured clime to be, And minister ...
Bright glowed the canvas, or with chastened light Of the wan moon was tinted; features mild With hopes angelic,--glorious visions wild, Fixed by ...
I know not how the right may be:-- But I give thanks whene'er I see Down in the green slopes of the ...
``One Lord, one faith, one baptism:'' where are these? ``One body and one bread:''--I see it not: For in the impotence of ...
Be it not mine in these high aisles to tread Lightly, with scornful or with pitying gaze, Viewing these worshippers, who on ...
For Summer I would paint a married pair Sitting in close embraces, while a band Of children kneel before them hand in ...
Young budding virgin, who in bashful pride, All dedicate to Christ, didst stand apart From crowds of pitying faithless, and with heart Unmoved ...
They stood upon these plains, and side by sideDid battle for the world, too long enthralledTo the universal tyrant; one ...
As some great actor, when the rhythmic strain Of music, and the step of even dance, Hath ceased, in conscious pride is ...
Wouldst thou behold, not the ensnaring blaze Of earthly grandeur in its envious noon, But the calm majesty of other days Reposing, as ...
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