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Henry Alford's Poetry, by title

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  • " I sought for Novelty--in vain"
    I sought for Novelty--in vain
    I searched the stores of Nature through:
    19 lines
  • "Evermore the night wave beateth on"
    Evermore the night wave beateth on,
    Heavily dashing up the pebbled shore;
    20 lines
  • "I had the sweetest dream but yesternight"
    I had the sweetest dream but yesternight
    About the lady of my love:
    29 lines
  • "``Father, wake--the storm is loud"
    ``Father, wake--the storm is loud,
      The rain is falling fast:
    17 lines
  • 1830
    Thou little flower, that on thy stem
      Totterest as the breezes blow;
    29 lines
  • 1832
    The cowslip standeth in the grass,
      The primrose in the budding grove
    17 lines
  • 1846
    Thou child of Man, fall down
      With contrite heart and low;
    39 lines
  • A Crimean Thought.
    Again those heavy tidings. On the breeze
      Laden with death, they come. A thousand more
    35 lines
  • A Day Dream
    Leave love, leave life:-our moments are made up
    Of fragments of desire: O that with thee
    20 lines
  • A Doubt.
    I know not how the right may be:--
      But I give thanks whene'er I see
    31 lines
  • A Dream
    The night that is now past hath been to me
      A time of wakeful, sleepful fancies: oft
    229 lines
  • A Greeting To Spring
    Hail to the woods once more! Hail blessed burst of the spring tide!
    Float over fathomless blue the fair white clouds on the zenith:
    13 lines
  • A Hymn For Family Worship
    Saviour of them that trust in Thee,
    Once more, with supplicating cries,
    24 lines
  • A Letter To America
    This to Hale in the West, from the Dean beneath his Cathedral.
    Greeting and health, and many New--year and Christmas blessings;
    145 lines
  • A Night Scene
    We looked into the silent sky,
      We gazed upon thee, lovely Moon;
    39 lines
  • A Remembrance
    Methinks I can remember, when a shade
    All soft and flowery was my couch, and I
    84 lines
  • A Spring Scene.
    MOTHER.  So thou hast brought thy bosom full of daisies
      And gilded celandine. There, pour them forth--
    80 lines
  • A Truant Hour.
    The golden stars keep watch aloft;
      Unmarked the moments glide along,
    29 lines
  • A Villiage Tale. Related Almost In The Words Of The Narrator.
    He was a blessed father; and he taught
      Us, his four children (for in that my day
    88 lines
  • A Winter Morning Scene.
    Far on the sloping casement from the East
      Looks through the frosted haze the purple sun,
    17 lines
  • A Wish.
    Would it were mine amidst the changes
      Through which our varied lifetime ranges,
    29 lines
  • Amor Coelestis
    I have a longing to be free;
      The soul that in me hides
    39 lines
  • Amor Mundanus.
    Freed from the womb, and from the bounds
      With which the stepdame infancy
    54 lines
  • Ampton, Suffolk
    There is a wood, not far from where I pass
      My unrecorded hours in pleasant toil;--
    20 lines
  • Ampton, Suffolk.
    I stand upon the margin of our level lake;
      The daylight from the west is fading fast away;
    29 lines
  • An Answer To A Question.
    When the thing thou lovest is not one
      That thou canst beg a blessing on;
    39 lines
  • An Easter Ode.
    The calm of blessed Night
      Is on Judaea's hills;
    41 lines
  • Anticipation.
    In the bright summer weather
      We twain will go together,
    29 lines
  • April, 1844.
    There was a child, bright as the summer prime,
      Fair as a flower. Not long his speaking eyes
    28 lines
  • August 19, 1830
    I go to the region of dreams,
      Where a veil is drawn o'er the bright day--beams,
    47 lines
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