Henry Martyn At Shiraz (Henry Alford Poems)
A vision of the bright Shiraz, of Persian bards the theme: The vine with bunches laden hangs o'er the crystal stream; The ...
Henry Alford Poems on Sons (11 Poems)
How We Buried Him. A Tribute To The Memory Of The Late Canon Chesshyre, St. Martin’s, Canterbury. (Henry Alford Poems)
Where thickest on that eastward hill the grassy mounds are piled, We laid him till the glorious morn beside his waiting ...
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 ...
Ballad. (Henry Alford Poems)
Rise, sons of merry England, from mountain and from plain; Let each light up his spirit, let none unmoved remain; The morning ...
Hymn For All Saints Day In The Morning (Henry Alford Poems)
Stand up before your GodYou army bold and bright,Saints martyrs and confessorsIn your robes of white;The Church below doth challenge ...
An Easter Ode. (Henry Alford Poems)
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 ...
Fragment Of A Proposed Drama 1832. Alcibiades Loquitur. (Henry Alford Poems)
--Like a great river, toward the rising sun Broad Hellespont is flowing: far beyond, Over a land of never--dying names, Tower the brows ...
Psalm CXXXVII. (Henry Alford Poems)
By Babylon streams we sat us down and wept, When we remembered Zion mournfully; As for our harps, we hanged them up Upon ...
Hymn For A Missal. (Henry Alford Poems)
Thou that art the Father's Word,Thou that art the Lamb of God,Thou that art the Virgin's Son,Thou that savest souls ...
Sonnet XXXII. On Hearing That It Is Supposed, From Astronomical Considerations, The World Is Yet In (Henry Alford Poems)
So then the lessons of all--teaching Time Shall not be fruitless; but the sons of men Will live to ripen into age, ...
Sonnet XCII. That Day Was The Preparation, And The Sabbath Drew On. (Henry Alford Poems)
Rise and depart, thou highly--favoured one, From the sad cross, by thine adopted led: Enough of bitter tears hath now been shed: ``Behold ...