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 ...
Into the rock the road is cut full deep, At its low ledges village children play,From its high rifts fountains of ...
Subject given—“Light and Shade.”She stepped upon Sicilian grass, Demeter’s daughter fresh and fair,A child of light, a radiant lass, And gamesome as ...
The sun was streaming in: I woke, and said,“Where is my wife,—that has been made my wifeOnly this year?” The casement ...
I.The white broom flatt'ring her flowers in calm June weather, 'O most sweet wear;Forty-eight weeks of my life do none desire ...
I.'And you brought him home.' 'I did, ay Ronald, it rested with me.''Love!' 'Yes.' 'I would fain you were not ...
When found the rose delight in her fair hue?Color is nothing to this world; ’tis IThat see it. Farther, I have ...
Grand is the leisure of the earth;She gives her happy myriads birth,And after harvest fears not dearth,But goes to sleep ...
ON A SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY HISWIFE TO THEIR FRIEND.Beautiful eyes,—and shall I see no moreThe living thought ...
I.Who pipes upon the long green hill, Where meadow grass is deep?The white lamb bleats but followeth on— Follow the clean white ...
A waxing moon that, crescent yet,In all its silver beauty set,And rose no more in the lonesome nightTo shed full-orbed ...
(Old Style.)Methought the stars were blinking bright,And the old brig’s sails unfurled;I said, “I will sail to my love this ...
Uplifted and lone, set apart with our love On the crest of a soft swelling downCloud shadows that meet on the ...
"The time of the singing of birds is come." Thick orchards, all in white, Stand 'neath blue voids of light,And birds among ...
Old Albion sat on a crag of late. And sang out--"Ahoy! ahoy!Long, life to the captain, good luck to the mate.And ...
Come up the broad river, the Thames, my Dane, My Dane with the beautiful eyes!Thousands and thousands await thee full fain, And ...
"I have loved thee with an everlasting love."Dear is the lost wife to a lone man's heart, When in a dream ...
"Though I take the wings of the morning."Sweet are His ways who rules above, He gives from wrath a sheltering place; But ...
"In Him we live, and move, and have our being."The measureless gulfs of air are full of Thee: Thou Art, and ...
As I came round the harbor buoy,The lights began to gleam,No wave the land-locked water stirred,The crags were white as ...
Midsummer night, not dark, not light, Dusk all the scented air,I'll e'en go forth to one I love, And learn how he ...
I clomb full high the belfry tower Up to yon arrow-slit, up and away,I said 'let me look on my heart's ...
I.When I had guineas many a oneNought else I lack 'neath the sun,I had two eyes the bluest seen,A perfect ...
It's we two, it's we two, it's we two for aye,All the world, and we two, and Heaven be our ...
"And fell on his neck, and kissed him."Thou wert far off, and in the sight of heaven Dead. And thy Father ...
Mountains of sorrow, I have heard your moans, And the moving of your pines; but we sit high On your green shoulders, ...
As a forlorn soul waiting by the Styx Dimly expectant of lands yet more dim,Might peer afraid where shadows change and ...
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