Henry Alford's Poetry, by written

• A Day Dream

  Leave love, leave life:-our moments are made up
  Of fragments of desire: O that with thee

  20 lines
• To A Beautiful Female Portrait

  Whereto shall I liken thee,
  Thou with sunbright eyes divine?

  44 lines
• "Evermore the night wave beateth on"

  Evermore the night wave beateth on,
  Heavily dashing up the pebbled shore;

  20 lines
• Epicedia

  
  Ye must not die--your cheek is red,

  140 lines
• August 22, 1830

  Oh! when shall this frail tenement of clay
  Be emptied by Death's peremptory call,

  14 lines
• Sonnet Written At A Distance From Home

  My own dear country--thy remembrance comes
  Like softly--flowing music on my heart;

  14 lines
• On Seeing The Following Epitaph At Selworthy, West Somerset

  This grave's a cradle where an infant lies,
  Rockt fast asleepe with Death's sad lullabyes.

  43 lines
• To The Stream In Worthy Dell, Near Porlock

  I named thee once the silver thread,
  When in the burning summer day

  29 lines
• Sonnet. "Lady, I may not but indite to thee"

  Lady, I may not but indite to thee
  One grateful tribute of my verse, to tell

  14 lines
• A Remembrance

  Methinks I can remember, when a shade
  All soft and flowery was my couch, and I

  84 lines
• December 11, 1832

  We cannot weep, nor feel as we have felt
  For aught in sorrow: thou art all too calm

  13 lines
• Ballad." The Baron is back from his hawking come"

  The Baron is back from his hawking come,
  At the close of the summer's day:

  47 lines
• Under A Portrait Of Nelson

  Thou falledst--but thou art not fled--
  Thy spirit is but scattered,

  8 lines
• Fragments From Sappho

  I.  Hesperus, thou bringest near 
  Hesperus, thou bringest near

  27 lines
• Fragments From Alcaeus

  I.  The air--god raineth: through the sky
  The air--god raineth: through the sky

  11 lines
• The Greenlander To His Dead Reindeer; Written In Early Youth

  Nevermore on hills of snow
  Shall we two together go,

  26 lines
• Sonnets, Suggested In The West Of England. During The Summer Of 1832

  Introductory
  If thou would'st find what holiest men have sought,

  33 lines
• On The Sign Of The Cross In Baptism

  In token that thou shalt not fear
    Christ crucified to own,

  24 lines
• Psalm XLVI.

  God is our refuge and our strength
    When trouble's hour is near:

  34 lines
• Psalm CXXXVII.

  By Babylon streams we sat us down and wept,
    When we remembered Zion mournfully;

  24 lines
• An Answer To A Question.

  When the thing thou lovest is not one
    That thou canst beg a blessing on;

  39 lines
• The School Of The Heart. Lesson The First

  The spring is coming round--the buds have burst,
    And on the coppice--path, and in the bower,

  300 lines
• The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Second.

  My sweet companion, who hast ever been
    Beside me in all toils, refreshing oft

  414 lines
• The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Third.

  The dews descend, the soft and gentle dews;
    Over the homeward meadows, stretching forth

  279 lines
• The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Fourth.

  Rememberest thou that solemn eventide
    When last we parted? we had wandered forth

  461 lines
• The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Fifth.

  From the great sun light flows upon the earth;
    And every thing that lives this summer morn

  501 lines
• The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Sixth

  Erewhile of Death and human suffering
    Spoke we, and lingered, as in some dark wood

  493 lines
• The Abbot Of Muchelnaye. Canto The First.

  With pale ray--for she hath no fellow yet--
    The eve--star shineth out above the west;

  119 lines
• The Abbot Of Muchelnaye. Canto The Second.

  It is the solemn midnight; and the moon
    Hard by the zenith holds her solemn state,

  130 lines
• The Abbot Of Muchelnaye. Canto The Last

  ``Here is no place for greeting: fly afar
    Before the absent sisterhood return.

  139 lines

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