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 ...
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Above the head of great MethuselahThere lay two demons in the opened roofInvisible, and gathered up his words;For when the ...
I.1EVEN as water to him who thirsts wayfaring, dust-dry and burning,After sore heat and long stumbling in courses with never ...
Fain would my verse, Tyrconnel, boast thy name,Brownlow, at once my subject and my fame!Oh! could that spirit, which thy ...
The following lines were suggested by the circumstance of a boat, from the Faro Islands, stopping at Lerwick, on her ...
I.Believe me, Edwards, to restrainThe licence of a railer's tongueIs what but seldom men obtainBy sense or wit, by prose ...
Whilom, indeed, I was always wise; and wise, even yet, am I!I was ever mad and beside myself-mad, even yet, ...
Pump the old harmonium in a back room.The kettle's on for tea at four o'clock.A man's to get born, who'll ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gapLeft by the Holy Quest; and as he satIn hall at old ...
I.IN yonder dark and narrow lodging,There rests a patriot's body,Which, after many a slip and dodging,Death took in safe custody.II.What ...
'Twas the night before the Fourth of July, the people slept serene; The fireworks were stored in the old town ...
The schools marched in procession in happiness and pride, The city bands before them, the soldiers marched beside; Oh, starched ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
Where are you, my beloved? Are you in that little Paradise, watering the flowers who look upon you As infants ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
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