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 ...
Henry Alford Poems on Sign & Symbol (7 Poems)
Inscription. For The Ruin Of A Villiage Cross, Hathern, Leicestershire. (Henry Alford Poems)
The simple folk once used to throng These mouldering steps beneath, And every child that passed along Its soft petitions breathe, In pious days ...
1846 (Henry Alford Poems)
Thou child of Man, fall down With contrite heart and low; Inheritor by fleshly birth Of exile, death, and woe. Thou child of Man, ...
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 ...
Sonnet XXIV. The Same (Henry Alford Poems)
Long we have mourned; but now the worst hath come, We cannot weep, nor feel as we have felt For aught in ...
Homer (Henry Alford Poems)
Ilion, along whose streets in olden daysShone that divinest form, for whose sweet faceA monarch sire, with all his kingly ...
December 11, 1832 (Henry Alford Poems)
We cannot weep, nor feel as we have feltFor aught in sorrow: thou art all too calmAnd solemn--silent on thy ...