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 ...
Jean Ingelow Poems on God (42 Poems)
A Mother Showing The Portrait Of Her Child (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(F.M.L.)Living child or pictured cherub, Ne’er o’ermatched its baby grace;And the mother, moving nearer, Looked it calmly in the face;Then with slight ...
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 ...
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 ...
Strife and Peace (Jean Ingelow Poems)
The yellow poplar-leaves came down And like a carpet lay,No waftings were in the sunny air To flutter them away;And he stepped ...
Songs of the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I saw when I looked up, on either hand, A pale high chalk-cliff, reared aloft in white;A narrowing rent soon closed ...
O Night Of Nights! O Night (Jean Ingelow Poems)
"Let us now go even unto Bethlehem."O Night of nights! O night Desired of man so long!The ancient heavens fled forth ...
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 ...
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 measureless gulfs of air are full of Thee (Jean Ingelow Poems)
"In Him we live, and move, and have our being."The measureless gulfs of air are full of Thee: Thou Art, and ...
Compensation (Jean Ingelow Poems)
One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea; He built a bridge, but floods have borne it down;He meant ...