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 ...
From the great sun light flows upon the earth; And every thing that lives this summer morn Looks joyous; all along the ...
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 ...
The night that is now past hath been to me A time of wakeful, sleepful fancies: oft Have I been whirled aloft ...
It is the solemn midnight; and the moon Hard by the zenith holds her solemn state, And yon flushed star will westward ...
He was a blessed father; and he taught Us, his four children (for in that my day There were no schools as ...
Methinks I can remember, when a shadeAll soft and flowery was my couch, and IA little naked child with fair ...
Beautiful babe, I gaze upon thy face That bears no trace of earth: thy silk--soft cheek Gladdens me even to tears, and ...
A vision of the bright Shiraz, of Persian bards the theme: The vine with bunches laden hangs o'er the crystal stream; The ...
The stars are clear and frosty, and the Earth Is laid in her first sleep, secure and calm; The glorious works of ...
This grave's a cradle where an infant lies,Rockt fast asleepe with Death's sad lullabyes.Sad lullabyes, dear child--in this sweet spot,The ...
The Baron is back from his hawking come,At the close of the summer's day:But the spots of red blood danced ...
Would it were mine amidst the changes Through which our varied lifetime ranges, To live on Providence's bounty Down in some favoured Western ...
'Tis just the moment when time hangs in doubt Between the parting and the coming day: The deep clock tolleth twelve: and ...
I thought, if I could go and stand Beside our dear one's grave in Faith, And lift the voice, and stretch the ...
Far on the sloping casement from the East Looks through the frosted haze the purple sun, As with a heavenly presence filling ...
Evermore the night wave beateth on,Heavily dashing up the pebbled shore;Evermore the silent stars look on;--Evermore the spent wave draweth ...
Sleep, gentle love! and let the soothing dew Of deepest quiet cover every sense; Calm visions rise before thine inward view, And restless ...
Child of our love, thou sleepest softly now In our dear home perchance, with thine own smile Resting upon thy rosy lips, ...
'Twere better far from noon to eventide To sit and feel sad care, and fence the while The patient spirit for unwonted ...
The peaceful moon sheds downward from the sky Upon the sleeping city her soft light; Lines of storm--laden vapour heavily From the low ...
Cheeriest of maidens, who, with light of bliss That waneth never in thy gladsome eye, Passest all lightly earth's sad sorrows by, Scarce ...
All things are dying round us; days and hours, A multitudinous troop are passing on; Winter is fled, and spring hath shed ...
Nevermore on hills of snowShall we two together go,My Reindeer;Nevermore the snow thou'lt paw,All in haste my sledge to draw,My ...
From our aisles of places holy, From our dwellings calm and lowly, On the autumn breezes slowly Swells the sound of prayer: God! before ...
``Father, wake--the storm is loud, The rain is falling fast: Let me go to my mother's grave, And screen it from the blast: She ...
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