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 Dreams (24 Poems)
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 ...
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, ...
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 VII. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
And while he spoke there was a noise without;The curtains of the door were flung aside,And some with heavy feet ...
Poems – Written On The Deaths Of Three Lovely Children (Jean Ingelow Poems)
HENRY,AGED EIGHT YEARS.Yellow leaves, how fast they flutter—woodland hollows thickly strewing, Where the wan October sunbeams scantly in the mid-day win,While ...
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 ...
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 ...
Requiescat In Pace (Jean Ingelow Poems)
O my heart, my heart is sick awishing and awaiting:The lad took up his knapsack, he went, he went his ...
At One Again (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I. NOONDAY.Two angry men—in heat they sever, And one goes home by a harvest field:—"Hope's nought," quoth he, "and vain endeavor; I ...
A Story Of Doom: Book IX. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
The prayer of Noah. The man went forth by nightAnd listened; and the earth was dark and still,And he was ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kismet (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Into the rock the road is cut full deep, At its low ledges village children play,From its high rifts fountains of ...
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 ...
Songs with Preludes: Lamentation (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I read upon that book,Which down the golden gulf doth let us lookOn the sweet days of pastoral majesty; I read ...
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 ...
Wendover (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Uplifted and lone, set apart with our love On the crest of a soft swelling downCloud shadows that meet on the ...
Dear Is The Lost Wife To A Lone Man’s Heart (Jean Ingelow Poems)
"I have loved thee with an everlasting love."Dear is the lost wife to a lone man's heart, When in a dream ...
The Long Write Seam (Jean Ingelow Poems)
As I came round the harbor buoy,The lights began to gleam,No wave the land-locked water stirred,The crags were white as ...
The Fairy-Woman’ (Jean Ingelow Poems)
The fairy woman maketh moan, "Well-a-day, and well-a-day,Forsooth I brought thee one rose, one, And thou didst cast my rose away."Hark! Oh ...