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Miscellaneous Poems

by Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis (1793-1847)

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‘How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?’

Elijah's Interview with God

The Mother and her Dying Boy

‘The Unknown God’

On a Naval Officer buried in the Atlantic

The Voice of God

The Approach of Spring

‘Lo, we have left all, and followed Thee’

Morning Thoughts

‘Return unto Me, and I will return unto Thee’

‘Whither shall I fly from Thy presence?’

Parted Christians

Spare my Flower

‘My Beloved is mine, and I am his’

A Summer Day in Winter

‘Jesus Wept’

The Wall-flower

The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Song

To a Blade of Grass

A fallen Sister

The Sailor's Meditation, on Watch at Night

She is gone! she is gone!

New-Year's Morning Hymn

The World renounced

‘Is this the Kindness to the friend?’

The Infant's Address to departing Day-light

‘It is I: be not afraid’

Inscription on a Monument

The Prayer-answering God

The Heart in tune

Pleading for Mercy

On Dreaming of my Mother

‘It doth not yet appear what we shall be’

‘O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I fly away and be at rest’

Friends lost in 1833

Stanzas to J. K.

David's three mighty Ones

A Recall to my Child A. M.

The Dying Christian to his Soul

Napoleon's Grave

Grace Darling's Death-bed

Longings for Home

Thoughts in Weakness

The Czar in Rome

Fragments OF AN UNFINISHED POEM, ENTITLED LILLA A FAIRY TALE

The Complaint of Mary Magdalene

January 1st, 1847

The Poet's Plea

To a field-flower

Hark! round the God of Love

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Miscellaneous Poems

by Henry Francis Lyte

Henry Francis Lyte

1793-1847

Rivingtons

London Oxford

1868