Poetry Codex

Victorian

Henry Alford

1810–1871

Henry Alford (1810–1871) was an English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet and hymn-writer.

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 Abbot of Muchelnaye — Narrative poem, 1859
  2. The School of the Heart — Blank-verse poem, 1859

Poems (212)

  1. Ten thousand times ten thousand
  2. Be Just and Fear Not
  3. Not War, nor Hurrying Troops from Plain to Plain
  4. Lady Mary
  5. Hymn to the Sun
  6. Hymn to the Sea
  7. To a Drop of Dew
  8. To a Mountain Stream
  9. On the Aged Oak, at Oakley, Somerset
  10. On the Evening of a Village Festival
  11. Last Words
  12. Father, Wake
  13. The Ancient Man
  14. The Little Mourner
  15. A Dream
  16. A Spring Scene
  17. Inscription for the Ruin of a Village Cross, Hathern, Leicestershire
  18. The Dead
  19. Written on Christmas Eve, 1836
  20. February 10, 1840
  21. The National Prayer
  22. The Dirge of the Passing Year
  23. Nottingham Mechanics' Exhibition, 1840
  24. Lines Written on the Birth of My First Child
  25. Christmas Eve, 1836
  26. Lines Written in a Copy of 'The Revolt of Islam'
  27. Inscription for a Block of Granite on the Mer de Glace
  28. To a Moonbeam, by Our Fire-side
  29. A Village Tale
  30. Ballad: 1845
  31. Sonnets I
  32. Sonnets II
  33. Sonnets III
  34. Sonnets IV
  35. Sonnets V
  36. Sonnets VI
  37. Sonnets VII
  38. Sonnets VIII
  39. Sonnets IX: To the Author of 'The Rectory of Valehead'
  40. Sonnets X: To Mary
  41. Sonnets XI: To the Same
  42. Sonnets XII: To William Jackson of Exeter
  43. Sonnets XIII: The Mendip Hills over Wells
  44. Sonnets XIV: Glastonbury
  45. Sonnets XV: Sunset at Burton Pynsent, Somerset
  46. Sonnets XVI: Recollection of Wordsworth's 'Ruth'
  47. Sonnets XVII: An Evening in Autumn, near Nether Stowey, Somerset
  48. Sonnets XVIII: Culbone, or Kitnore, Somerset
  49. Sonnets XIX: Linn-Cleeve, Linton, Devon
  50. Sonnets XX: Waters-Meet, Linn, Devon
  51. Sonnets XXI: Sacred to the Memory of E. S., who Died September 3, 1832
  52. Sonnets XXII: The Dying Bed
  53. Sonnets XXIII: The Death-chamber
  54. Sonnets XXIV: The Same
  55. Sonnets XXV: The Funeral
  56. Sonnets XXVI
  57. Sonnets XXVII: Heu Quanto Minus Est Cum Reliquis Versari, Quam Tui Meminisse!
  58. Sonnets XXVIII
  59. Sonnets XXIX
  60. Sonnets XXX: On Seeing Our Family-vault
  61. Sonnets XXXI: On the Same Occasion
  62. Sonnets XXXII: On Hearing that it is Supposed, from Astronomical Considerations, the World is yet in its Infancy
  63. Sonnets XXXIII
  64. Sonnets XXXIV: Suggested by the Opening of the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles
  65. Sonnets XXXV
  66. Sonnets XXXVI: The Gipsy Girl
  67. Sonnets XXXVII: To Winter. Written at Ampton, Suffolk
  68. Sonnets XXXVIII: Epiphany
  69. Sonnets XXXIX: To the Wood-pigeon. Written in Passion-week
  70. Sonnets XL: Easter-eve
  71. Sonnets XLI: In Laudem S. Eulaliae V. et M.
  72. Sonnets XLII
  73. Sonnets XLIII: The Malvern Hills, March 12, 1835
  74. Sonnets XLIV: Written in an Interval of Melancholy Foreboding respecting the Church
  75. Sonnets XLV
  76. Sonnets XLVI
  77. Sonnets XLVII
  78. Sonnets XLVIII
  79. Sonnets XLIX
  80. Sonnets L: To the River Wye
  81. Sonnets LI
  82. Sonnets LII: To the Yellow Cistus
  83. Sonnets LIII: Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, July, 1836
  84. Sonnets LIV: Stratford-upon-Avon, January, 1837
  85. Sonnets LV: St. Robert's Cave
  86. Sonnets LVI: Written at York on the Day of the Coronation of Queen Victoria, June 28, 1838
  87. Sonnets LVII: Summit of Skiddaw, July 7, 1838
  88. Sonnets LVIII: Descent of the Same
  89. Sonnets LIX: Written at Ampton, Suffolk, January, 1838
  90. Sonnets LX: Wymeswold, April, 1837
  91. Sonnets LXI: The Same
  92. Sonnets LXII: Off Ostende, June 11, 1837
  93. Sonnets LXIII: Bruges
  94. Sonnets LXIV: Written at Ghent
  95. Sonnets LXV: Antwerp Cathedral
  96. Sonnets LXVI: Brussels
  97. Sonnets LXVII: Waterloo
  98. Sonnets LXVIII: Written at Frankfort
  99. Sonnets LXIX: To Alice in England. Also Written at Frankfort
  100. Sonnets LXX: Milan Cathedral
  101. Sonnets LXXI: Winter, Drear and Chill, but Withal Merry and Free
  102. Sonnets LXXII: Spring, when Young Flowers Peep, but the Frost Nippeth Keen
  103. Sonnets LXXIII: Summer, when the Prime is Reached, but there are Tokens of Decay
  104. Sonnets LXXIV: Autumn, whose Fruits Endure, though Death is on it
  105. Sonnets LXXV: Epimenides
  106. Sonnets LXXVI: Arion
  107. Sonnets LXXVII
  108. Sonnets LXXVIII
  109. Sonnets LXXIX: To Charles Merivale
  110. Sonnets LXXX: My Ancestors
  111. Sonnets LXXXI: The Two Lots
  112. Sonnets LXXXII
  113. Sonnets LXXXIII: To a Friend Concerned in Education
  114. Sonnets LXXXIV
  115. Sonnets LXXXV: On My Stone Inkstand
  116. Sonnets LXXXVI: January 19, 1839
  117. Sonnets LXXXVII
  118. Sonnets LXXXVIII
  119. Sonnets LXXXIX
  120. Sonnets XC
  121. Sonnets XCI: Passion-week, 1845
  122. Sonnets XCII: That Day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath Drew on
  123. Sonnets XCIII
  124. Sonnets XCIV
  125. Sonnets XCV
  126. Sonnets XCVI: Ascension Day, 1845
  127. Sonnets XCVII: The Church in the Park
  128. Sonnets XCVIII
  129. Sonnets XCIX: Day by Day we Magnify Thee
  130. Sonnets C
  131. Written January 1, 1832
  132. Midnight Thoughts
  133. Peace
  134. A Doubt
  135. To-morrow
  136. Amor Mundanus
  137. Amor Coelestis
  138. Ampton, Suffolk, 1833
  139. The Same
  140. Written in an Artificial Pleasure-ground
  141. Palinode to the Foregoing
  142. Anticipation
  143. 1832
  144. An Easter Ode
  145. Wednesday in Easter Week, 1844
  146. First Sunday after Easter, 1844
  147. Faith
  148. The Passion of St. Agnes
  149. A Night Scene
  150. Portsmouth, 1830
  151. St. Andrew's Day
  152. First Sunday in Advent I
  153. First Sunday in Advent II
  154. Second Sunday in Advent
  155. Third Sunday in Advent
  156. St. Stephen's Day
  157. St. John's Day
  158. The Holy Innocents
  159. Circumcision of Christ
  160. Epiphany
  161. Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
  162. Sexagesima Sunday
  163. First Sunday in Lent
  164. Sixth Sunday in Lent
  165. Good Friday
  166. Second Sunday after Easter
  167. Ascension-Day
  168. Whit-Sunday
  169. Third Sunday after Trinity
  170. Seventh Sunday after Trinity
  171. Eighth Sunday after Trinity
  172. Twentieth Sunday after Trinity
  173. St. Thomas the Apostle
  174. Conversion of St. Paul
  175. St. Matthias's Day
  176. Annunciation of the B. V. Mary
  177. St. Mark's Day
  178. St. Barnabas the Apostle
  179. St. Peter's Day
  180. St. Bartholomew
  181. St. Matthew
  182. St. Luke
  183. St. Simon and St. Jude
  184. Holy Baptism
  185. Holy Communion
  186. For a Fast-Day
  187. For a Thanksgiving-Day
  188. For Morning
  189. After Harvest
  190. Judgment Hymn I
  191. Judgment Hymn II
  192. For Family Worship
  193. A Wish
  194. A Winter Morning Scene
  195. A Truant Hour
  196. November, 1847
  197. There Was a Child
  198. Lacrymae Paternae
  199. Our Early Friends
  200. February 3, 1830
  201. August 19, 1830
  202. 1830
  203. Written in Aid of the Leicester Lunatic Asylum, 1836
  204. Rydal Mount. June, 1838
  205. To Alice, Mary, Ambrose, and Clement
  206. L'Envoi, 1852
  207. Thou Child of Man, Fall Down
  208. The Salzburg Chimes
  209. Henry Martyn at Shiraz, 1851
  210. On a Cyclamen
  211. A Crimean Thought
  212. How We Buried Him

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