The Monitions of the Unseen (Jean Ingelow Poems)
There are who give themselves to work for men,—To raise the lost, to gather orphaned babesAnd teach them, pitying of ...
There are who give themselves to work for men,—To raise the lost, to gather orphaned babesAnd teach them, pitying of ...
At that dread season when th' indignant NorthPour'd to vain wars her tardy numbers forth,When Frederic bent his ear to ...
Thus all were satisfied, and day by day,For two sweet years a happy course was theirs;Happy, but yet the fortunate, ...
I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.Not the wide fan by Persian dames ...
A LEGEND OF THE MOHAWK. Where the waters of the Mohawk Through a quiet valley glide, From the brown church to her dwelling She ...
O parent of each lovely Muse,Thy spirit o'er my soul diffuse,O'er all my artless songs preside,My footsteps to thy temple ...
Ah! linger yet - a God of love is breathingNew life and passion through the frozen earth,As once of old ...
In the fair garden of celestial PeaceWalketh a Gardener in meekness clad;Fair are the flowers that wreathe his dewy locks,And ...
THE LOVER'S APOLOGY.I look'd into her eyes, And saw something divine,For there, like summer lightning, Swift coruscations shine.Still flashing, and still changing, Attemper'd ...
On Santa Croce's golden-pillared shrine, A thousand tapers pour their blended rays In one rich tide of radiance. Like a ...
But now Sabrina's guilty fire returns, Her bosom with the raging passion burns: She with a female tenderness relents, And ...
The knights return'd from Holy Land,Sir Guyon led the armed train;And to his castle, on the sea,He welcom'd them again.He ...
"Sleep, love, sleep! The dusty day is done. Lo! from afar the freshening breezes sweep Wide over groves of balm, ...
Hail, glorious morning of Columbia's birth, Celestial dawn of freedom! There shall be In recognition of thy wondrous worth ...
WHEN Pleasure gilds thy passing hours,And Hope enwreaths her fairy flowers,And Love appears with playful handTo steal from Time his ...
_From the Portuguese._HEAVY my heart is, heavy to carry,Full of soft foldings, of downy enwrapments--And the outer fold of all ...
If thou wert standing by yon tide, And I were standing by thy side, Methinks a death I ...
I would not, in the wildness of revenge,Give poison to mine enemy, nor strikeMy dagger to his heart, but I ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the ...
There, a little right of Ursus Major, is the Milky Way: a man can point it out, the biggest billionfold ...
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