Poetry Codex

Victorian

Alfred Perceval Graves

1846–1931

Alfred Perceval Graves was born in Dublin and worked as a school inspector, while writing songs and verse and collecting Irish and Welsh folk music. His song "Father O'Flynn" became widely popular.

He was the father of the poet Robert Graves and died in 1931.

Poems (63)

  1. Father O'Flynn
  2. Fan Fitzgerl
  3. Battle Hymn
  4. The Song of the Woods
  5. The Enchanted Valley
  6. Remember the Poor
  7. The Queen's Dream
  8. The Welsh Fishermen
  9. David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan
  10. The Fiery Furnace
  11. Ruth and Naomi
  12. The Lilies of the Field and the Fowls of the Air
  13. The Good Physician
  14. The Sower
  15. St. Mary Magdalen
  16. A Christmas Communion Hymn
  17. A Christmas Carol of the Epiphany
  18. A Fourteenth-Century Carol
  19. Earth's Easter
  20. Easter Day, 1915
  21. The Ascension
  22. Whitsuntide
  23. Harvest Hymn
  24. Lady Gwenny
  25. Old Doctor Mack
  26. To the Memory of John Owen
  27. Saint Cuthbert
  28. Alfred the Great
  29. Sir Samuel Ferguson
  30. "Men, Not Walls, Make a City"
  31. Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener
  32. Inscription for a Roll of Honour in a Public School
  33. An Epitaph
  34. An Intercessional Answered
  35. A Holiday Hymn
  36. Summer Morning's Walk
  37. Snow-Stains
  38. Remembrance
  39. Sands of Gold
  40. The Mourner
  41. De Profundis
  42. Immortal Hope
  43. We Had a Child
  44. By the Bedside of a Sick Child
  45. He Has Come Back
  46. Spring's Secrets
  47. The Lord's Leisure
  48. Spring Is Not Dead
  49. Aim Not Too High
  50. Bridal Invocation
  51. The Coming of Sir Galahad and a Vision of the Grail
  52. Ask What Thou Wilt
  53. Herring is King
  54. The Rose of Kenmare
  55. The Song of the Pratee
  56. Irish Lullaby
  57. The Sailor Girl
  58. Johnny Cox
  59. A Song of the Exmoor Hunt
  60. The Song of the Ghost
  61. The White Blossom's Off the Bog
  62. An Irish Lullaby
  63. The Little Red Lark

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