Poetry Codex

Victorian

Cecil Frances Alexander

1818–1895

Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895) was an Anglo-Irish hymn-writer and poet, the author of “All Things Bright and Beautiful”; the anthology prints her birth year as 1823.

The poems here are taken from Alfred H. Miles (ed.), The Poets and the Poetry of the Century (London: Hutchinson, 1891–1897), vol. 10, from the Internet Archive scans of that edition. Spelling is that of the anthology; Miles's biographical essay and extracts from longer poems are omitted, and only poems that could be read cleanly from the scan are included.

Major Works (2)

  1. The Baron's Little Daughter — Narrative poem, 1896
  2. Lilian — Narrative poem, 1896

Poems (147)

  1. Earth and Heaven
  2. Touched with a Feeling of Our Infirmities
  3. The Burial of Moses
  4. There is a Green Hill far Away
  5. Morning Hymn
  6. Evening Hymn (On the dark hill's western side)
  7. Evening Hymn (Twilight is stealing)
  8. Advent (Up in Heaven, up in Heaven)
  9. Advent (When Jesus came to earth of old)
  10. Christmas
  11. Christmas Hymn
  12. Epiphany (The wise men to Thy cradle throne)
  13. Epiphany (Star of the East! whose silver ray)
  14. Septuagesima
  15. Lenten Hymn
  16. Good Friday (Forgive them, O My Father)
  17. Good Friday (His are the thousand sparkling rills)
  18. Easter Hymn
  19. Easter
  20. The Ascension (Behold the King of glory waits)
  21. The Ascension (The golden gates are lifted up)
  22. Trinity Sunday
  23. St. Andrew's Day
  24. St. Mark's Day
  25. St. Matthew's Day
  26. St. Philip and St. James' Day (There is one Way, and only one)
  27. St. Philip and St. James' Day (I am the Way," saith He)
  28. St. Peter's Day
  29. St. James the Apostle's Day (For all Thy Saints, a noble throng)
  30. St. James the Apostle's Day (Who shall sit down at Thy right hand, Lord)
  31. St. Simon and St. Jude's Day
  32. St. Columba's Day
  33. Communion Hymn
  34. Hymns for Communicants' Guild
  35. Children's Service; Holy Innocents
  36. Children's Service (Do no sinful action)
  37. Children's Service (When Christ into the Temple came)
  38. Hymn for an Orphan Home
  39. Hymn for Flower Sunday
  40. Child's Funeral
  41. Heaven
  42. Marriage Hymn
  43. Consecration Hymn (With laud and loud thanksgiving)
  44. Consecration Hymn (Thy Temple is not made with hands)
  45. Consecration Hymn (Arise, Lord, into Thy resting place)
  46. Reopening of Derry Cathedral, 1886
  47. For laying Foundation Stone of Buncrana Church School House
  48. Missionary Hymn for S.P.G.
  49. For our Emigrants
  50. Hymn for Teachers' Devotional Meetings
  51. St. Patrick's Breastplate
  52. Praise
  53. The Cave of Machpelah
  54. Rachel
  55. Jacob and Pharaoh
  56. Moses' Choice
  57. The Manna in the Wilderness
  58. The Victory over Amalek
  59. Caleb and Joshua
  60. The Dead
  61. Rahab
  62. The Warning Angel
  63. Gideon's Fleece
  64. Samson
  65. Hannah's Offering
  66. The Harping of David
  67. The Burial of Samuel
  68. Saul
  69. The Death of David
  70. The Adoration of the Wise Men
  71. "He came down to Nazareth"
  72. "Baptized in Jordan"
  73. The Dove
  74. Lent
  75. "Trouble not the Master"
  76. "She is not Dead, but Sleepeth"
  77. At Jacob's Well
  78. The Storm
  79. "Peace, be Still"
  80. The Blind Man Begging
  81. "He set a Child in the Midst"
  82. The Good Shepherd
  83. "When Jesus saw His Mother"
  84. The Resurrection
  85. The Yellow Damask Chair
  86. The Eve of Battle
  87. The Rising at Aix
  88. The Siege of Derry
  89. The Child of the Rhine
  90. The Legend of Stumpie's Brae
  91. Lost for Gold
  92. The Graveyard in the Hills
  93. The Lapidary's Daughter
  94. The Dying Soldier's Wife
  95. The Twin Mutes; Taught and Untaught
  96. Dying among the Pines
  97. A Tale of the First Christians
  98. The Lonely Grave
  99. The Irish Mother's Lament
  100. Sorrow on the Sea
  101. New Year's Eve
  102. The Legend of the Golden Prayers
  103. Humility
  104. Church Bells
  105. Hope
  106. The Pilgrim
  107. The Evening Hour
  108. King Edward's Dream
  109. The Grave at Spitsbergen
  110. The Grave of Mrs. Hemans
  111. Southey's Grave
  112. The Grave by St. Columba's Cross
  113. In Memoriam. The Honourable Arthur O'Neil
  114. Death of the Kaiser
  115. In Memoriam. Maximilian Dudley Digges Dalison
  116. In Memoriam. Right Hon. Arthur Kavanagh
  117. In Memoriam. A. T.
  118. A Brother's Grave
  119. "The Work of Woman's Hand"
  120. The Valley of the Shadow of Death. Euthanasia
  121. The Royal Bridal
  122. The Seaman's Home
  123. Lent Lilies
  124. The Deaf and Dumb Child
  125. On the Laying of the First Stone of the Memorial Church at Constantinople
  126. The Sun of Righteousness
  127. Privileges Withdrawn
  128. The Bishop of Brechin and I
  129. The Projected Taylor Cathedral at Belfast
  130. A Consecration Hymn
  131. The Rose of the Infanta
  132. The Poor
  133. La Mère
  134. Mon Enfant
  135. Written in a Volume of Matthew Arnold's Poems
  136. To W. A.
  137. The Struggle
  138. Two Ways
  139. Dreams
  140. In the Distance
  141. Longings
  142. Songs Written for Hullah
  143. Non Angli sed Angeli
  144. Joanna
  145. Rejected
  146. Dying Girl's Song
  147. The Little White Ghost

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