Contrasted Songs: A Lily And The Lute (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(Song of the uncommunicated Ideal.)I.I opened the eyes of my soul. And behold,A white river-lily: a lily awake, and aware,—For she set ...
(Song of the uncommunicated Ideal.)I.I opened the eyes of my soul. And behold,A white river-lily: a lily awake, and aware,—For she set ...
The roadside forests here and there were touched with tawny gold;The days were shortening, and at dusk the sea looked ...
Spirit, that rarely comest now And only to contrast my gloom, Like rainbow-feathered birds that bloomA moment on some autumn boughThat, with ...
We passed old farmer Boothby in the field.Rugged and straight he stood; his body steeledWith stubbornness and age. We met ...
Dread phantom, with pale finger on thy lips, Who dost unclose the awful doors for each, That ope but once, and are ...
HE sleeps not here; in hope and prayerHis wandering flock had gone before,But he, the shepherd, might not shareTheir sorrows ...
The tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea;The night-wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee.At last ...
Who has seen the Silver FeatherFlying in across the foam,Thro' the isles where thyme and heatherFlower sweet as honeycomb -Who ...
AND will you rest at last, storm-beaten spirit,In this poor heart, who would your haven be,Will you sink down at ...
As I came round the harbor buoy,The lights began to gleam,No wave the land-locked water stirred,The crags were white as ...
Men wondered why I loved you, and none guessedHow sweet your slow, divine stupidity,Your look of earth, your sense of ...
There is one bright star in heaven Ever shining in my night;God to me one guide has given Like the sailor's beacon ...
In Lymoon Pass we felt the landGrow near and high on either hand;Strange voices shouted through the night,Strange junks flashed ...
SEATED in a Moorish garden On the Sahel of Algiers, Wandering breezes brought the burden Of its history in past ...
TO HUPNOS. I.Kind Comforter of all the weary Gods, With drooping eyelids, head that ever nods! Thou silent soother, that ...
(1)One night I dreamt that in a gleaming hallYou played, and overhead the air was sweetWith waving kerchiefs; then a ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true. Such long swift tides stir not a land-locked sea. On gods ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
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