Blank-verse poem · 1859

The School of the Heart

by Henry Alford

A long blank-verse poem in six lessons: a young man's meditation on love, nature, the Church and death, which the author later called a collection of detached passages of youthful feeling.

Contents · 6 parts

• Lesson the Firstabout 290 lines
• Lesson the Secondabout 410 lines
• Lesson the Thirdabout 280 lines
• Lesson the Fourthabout 450 lines
• Lesson the Fifthabout 490 lines
• Lesson the Sixthabout 480 lines

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