The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Fifth. (Henry Alford Poems)
From the great sun light flows upon the earth; And every thing that lives this summer morn Looks joyous; all along the ...
Henry Alford Poems on Sense & Perception (29 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Epicedia (Henry Alford Poems)
I.Ye must not die--your cheek is red,Ye have not lost your bloom;We shall be loth when ye are deadTo lay ...
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 ...
A Remembrance (Henry Alford Poems)
Methinks I can remember, when a shadeAll soft and flowery was my couch, and IA little naked child with fair ...
De Profundis. (Henry Alford Poems)
All day long the tear is swelling, Drops, and then anew is swelling, Constant, in its crystal dwelling. All day long, each other ...
Amor Mundanus. (Henry Alford Poems)
Freed from the womb, and from the bounds With which the stepdame infancy Our days of pupilage surrounds, We spring up beautiful and ...
August 19, 1830 (Henry Alford Poems)
I go to the region of dreams, Where a veil is drawn o'er the bright day--beams, And a soft and shadowy mist ...
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 ...
Sonnets CII., CIII. Nottingham Mechanic’s Exhibition, 1840 (Henry Alford Poems)
Bright glowed the canvas, or with chastened light Of the wan moon was tinted; features mild With hopes angelic,--glorious visions wild, Fixed by ...
April, 1844. (Henry Alford Poems)
There was a child, bright as the summer prime, Fair as a flower. Not long his speaking eyes Had uttered meaning: nature's ...
Portsmouth, 1830 (Henry Alford Poems)
When I am in my grave, The busy clouds will wander on; This Moon, that silver--tips each dancing wave, Will shine as it ...
On The Evening Of A Villiage Festival. (Henry Alford Poems)
While our shrub--walks darken, And the stars get bright aloft, Still we sit and hearken To the music low and soft; By the old ...
“I had the sweetest dream but yesternight” (Henry Alford Poems)
I had the sweetest dream but yesternightAbout the lady of my love:I saw her sitting in a faint green lightWith ...
Written In An Artificial Pleasure-Ground (Henry Alford Poems)
'Tis pretty, doubtless: water, grass, and trees, The man who hath a heart must always please: The morning glories from yon steaming ...
Sonnet LXXXI. The Two Lots. (Henry Alford Poems)
Two pilgrims on a pleasant road set forth: Green was the herbage by their journey--side; Through deep and shrubby dells their way ...
Sonnet IV. “Out, palsied soul, that dost but tremble ever” (Henry Alford Poems)
Out, palsied soul, that dost but tremble ever In sight of the bright sunshine;--mine be joy, And the full heart, and eye ...
Sonnet XLVIII. “Sleep, gentle love! and let the soothing dew” (Henry Alford Poems)
Sleep, gentle love! and let the soothing dew Of deepest quiet cover every sense; Calm visions rise before thine inward view, And restless ...
Sonnet XIX. Linn-Cleeve, Linton, Devon. (Henry Alford Poems)
This onward--deepening gloom,--this hanging path Over the Linn that soundeth mightily, Foaming and tumbling on, as if in wrath That ought should bar ...
Sonnet XXVII. Heu Quanto Minus Est Cum Reliquis Versari, Quam Tui Meminisse! (Henry Alford Poems)
The sweetest flower that ever saw the light, The smoothest stream that ever wandered by, The fairest star upon the brow of ...
Sonnet LXIII. Bruges. (Henry Alford Poems)
Wouldst thou behold, not the ensnaring blaze Of earthly grandeur in its envious noon, But the calm majesty of other days Reposing, as ...
Sonnet XXXIV. Suggested By The Opening Of The Oedipus Coloneus Of Sophocles. (Henry Alford Poems)
Colonos, can it be that thou hast still Thy laurel and thine olive and thy vine? Do thy close--feathered nightingales yet trill Their ...
Sonnet LXX. Milan Cathedral. (Henry Alford Poems)
Here stand, beloved, where the outer light Falls glorified by entrance to the shrine Of the Eternal; where the tracery fine Of marble ...