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 ...
Only you'd have me speak. Whether to speakOr whether to be silent is all one;Whether to sleep and in my dreaming ...
I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,Rolling and rolling on and resting never, While ...
And after that, though oft he sought her door,He might not see her. First they said to him,"She is not ...
Thus all were satisfied, and day by day,For two sweet years a happy course was theirs;Happy, but yet the fortunate, ...
(Old English Manner.)APPRENTICED.Come out and hear the waters shoot, the owlet hoot, the owlet hoot; Yon crescent moon, a golden boat, ...
And while he spoke there was a noise without;The curtains of the door were flung aside,And some with heavy feet ...
(THE PARSON’S BROTHER, SISTER, AND TWO CHILDREN)Preface.What wonder man should fail to stay A nursling wafted from above,The growth celestial come ...
I.He knew she did not love him; but so longAs rivals were unknown to him, he dweltAt ease, and did ...
Her younger sister, that Speranza hight.England puts on her purple, and pale, pale With too much light, the primrose doth but ...
Then one ran, crying, while Niloiya wrought,"The Master cometh!" and she went withinTo adorn herself for meeting him. And ShemWent ...
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 ...
(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 ...
When in a May-day hushChanteth the Missel-thrushThe harp o’ the heart makes answer with murmurous stirs;When Robin-redbreast sings,We think on ...
"The time of the singing of birds is come." Thick orchards, all in white, Stand 'neath blue voids of light,And birds among ...
As I came round the harbor buoy,The lights began to gleam,No wave the land-locked water stirred,The crags were white as ...
"And fell on his neck, and kissed him."Thou wert far off, and in the sight of heaven Dead. And thy Father ...
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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