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The poetical works of Henry Alford

Fifth edition, containing many pieces now first collected

Alford, Henry (1810-1871)

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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART.

POEMS.

THE ABBOT OF MUCHELNAYE. (1832-39.)

THE BALLAD OF GLASTONBURY, (1832.)

THE PASSION OF ST AGNES, (1833.)

HYMN TO THE SUN, (1832.)

HYMN TO THE SEA, (1832.)

A DREAM, (1840.)

PIECES IN BLANK VERSE AND HEROIC MEASURE.

SONNETS.

LYRICAL PIECES.

POEMS NOW FIRST COLLECTED.

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The prospect of the western plains.

The hills have on their royal robes
Of purple and of gold,
And over their tops the autumn clouds
In heaps are onward rolled;
Below them spreads the fairest plain
That British eye may see,—
From Quantock to the Mendip range,
A broad expanse and free.

The magnificent views from the Quantock Hills above Nether Stowey, where this poem was written, embrace the whole of the moor district of Somersetshire, with the bare hills and wooded capes which bound this singular tract of country, and the Tor of Glastonbury and Mendip Hills in the distance.