Honours — Part I (Jean Ingelow Poems)
To strive—and fail. Yes, I did strive and fail; I set mine eyes upon a certain nightTo find a certain star—and ...
To strive—and fail. Yes, I did strive and fail; I set mine eyes upon a certain nightTo find a certain star—and ...
Before the lad invested we had comfort here indeed;Our lives were as an open book, and he who ran might ...
For all its flowers and trailing bowers,Its singing birds and streams,This valley's not the blissful spot,The paradise, it seems.I don't ...
The sun was streaming in: I woke, and said,“Where is my wife,—that has been made my wifeOnly this year?” The casement ...
HOW slowly creeps the hand of TimeOn the old clock's green-mantled face!Yea, slowly as those ivies climb,The hours roll round ...
"The time of the singing of birds is come." Thick orchards, all in white, Stand 'neath blue voids of light,And birds among ...
Senex. Saye, cushat, callynge from the brake,What ayles thee soe to pyne?Thy carefulle heart shall cease to akeWhen dayes be ...
The house where I was born,Where I was young and gay,Grows old amid its corn,Amid its scented hay.Moan of the ...
AUGUST, thou monarch of the mellow noon,That with thy sceptre smit'st the teeming plainAnd gladd'nest all the world with golden ...
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
Over the smooth lawns, broider'd with violets, Over the hedges of snow-white thorn, Over the billowy, pink apple-blossoms, ...
I Blue July, bright July, Month of storms and gorgeous blue; Violet lightnings o'er thy sky, Heavy falls of drenching ...
WHY do I make no poems? Good my friend Now is there silence through the summer woods, In whose green ...
PAST the town's clamour is a garden full Of loneness and old greenery; at noon When birds are hush'd, save ...
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
NOW westlin winds and slaught'ring guns Bring Autumn's pleasant weather; The moorcock springs on whirring wings Amang the blooming heather: ...
ONE night as I did wander, When corn begins to shoot, I sat me down to ponder Upon an auld ...
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
The house where I was born, Where I was young and gay, Grows old amid its corn, Amid its scented ...
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