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 ...
Jean Ingelow Poems on Home (31 Poems)
The Maid-Martyr (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Only you'd have me speak. Whether to speakOr whether to be silent is all one;Whether to sleep and in my dreaming ...
The Dreams That Came True (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,Rolling and rolling on and resting never, While ...
A Story Of Doom: Book I. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Niloiya said to Noah, "What aileth thee,My master, unto whom is my desire,The father of my sons?" He answered her,"Mother ...
A Parson’s Letter To A Young Poet (Jean Ingelow Poems)
They said "Too late, too late, the work is done;Great Homer sang of glory and strong menAnd that fair Greek ...
Laurance – [Part 3] (Jean Ingelow Poems)
And after that, though oft he sought her door,He might not see her. First they said to him,"She is not ...
Laurance – [Part 2] (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Thus all were satisfied, and day by day,For two sweet years a happy course was theirs;Happy, but yet the fortunate, ...
Songs of the Night Watches (complete) (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(Old English Manner.)APPRENTICED.Come out and hear the waters shoot, the owlet hoot, the owlet hoot; Yon crescent moon, a golden boat, ...
Scholar And The Carpenter (Jean Ingelow Poems)
While ripening corn grew thick and deep,And here and there men stood to reap,One morn I put my heart to ...
The Mariner’s Cave (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Once on a time there walked a mariner, That had been shipwrecked;—on a lonely shore,And the green water made a restless ...
A Story Of Doom: Book V. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
And when two days were over, Japhet said,"Mother, so please you, get a wife for me."The mother answered, "Dost thou ...
A Story Of Doom: Book VI. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Night. Now a tent was pitched, and Japhet satIn the door and watched, for on a litter layThe father of ...
Laurance – [Part 1] (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I.He knew she did not love him; but so longAs rivals were unknown to him, he dweltAt ease, and did ...
Supper at the Mill (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Mother.Well, Frances.Frances.Well, good mother, how are you?M. I'm hearty, lass, but warm; the weather's warm:I think 'tis mostly warm on ...
If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Out of the melancholy that is madeOf ebbing sorrow that too slowly ebbs,Comes back a sighing whisper of the reed,A ...
Songs Of Seven (complete) (Jean Ingelow Poems)
SEVEN TIMES ONE. EXULTATION.There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover, There’s no rain left in heaven:I’ve said my “seven times” ...
A Story Of Doom: Book VIII. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Then one ran, crying, while Niloiya wrought,"The Master cometh!" and she went withinTo adorn herself for meeting him. And ShemWent ...
A Story Of Doom: Book IV. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Now while these evil ones took counsel strange,The son of Lamech journeyed home; and, lo!A company came down, and struck ...
Nature, For Nature’s Sake (Jean Ingelow Poems)
White as white butterflies that each one dons Her face their wide white wings to shade withal,Many moon-daisies throng the water-spring. While ...
Echo And The Ferry (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Ay, Oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven;He looked at me pouting and rosy. I blushed where I ...
The Beginning (Jean Ingelow Poems)
They tell strange things of the primeval earth,But things that be are never strange to thoseAmong them. And we know ...
Perdita (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I go beyond the commandment.'So be it. Then mine be the blame,The loss, the lack, the yearning, till life's last ...
A Cottage In A Chine (Jean Ingelow Poems)
We reached the place by night, And heard the waves breaking:They came to meet us with candles alight To show the path ...
Persephone (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Subject given—“Light and Shade.”She stepped upon Sicilian grass, Demeter’s daughter fresh and fair,A child of light, a radiant lass, And gamesome as ...
Lovers At The Lake Side (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I.'And you brought him home.' 'I did, ay Ronald, it rested with me.''Love!' 'Yes.' 'I would fain you were not ...
Songs with Preludes: Dominion (Jean Ingelow Poems)
When found the rose delight in her fair hue?Color is nothing to this world; ’tis IThat see it. Farther, I have ...
Songs with Preludes: Friendship (Jean Ingelow Poems)
ON A SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY HISWIFE TO THEIR FRIEND.Beautiful eyes,—and shall I see no moreThe living thought ...
Dora (Jean Ingelow Poems)
A waxing moon that, crescent yet,In all its silver beauty set,And rose no more in the lonesome nightTo shed full-orbed ...
Contrasted Songs: Sailing Beyond The Seas (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(Old Style.)Methought the stars were blinking bright,And the old brig’s sails unfurled;I said, “I will sail to my love this ...
A Sea Song (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Old Albion sat on a crag of late. And sang out--"Ahoy! ahoy!Long, life to the captain, good luck to the mate.And ...