The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(1571.)The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;“Pull, if ye never pulled before; Good ringers, pull ...
(1571.)The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;“Pull, if ye never pulled before; Good ringers, pull ...
Ay, Oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven;He looked at me pouting and rosy. I blushed where I ...
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 ...
I took a year out of my life and story-- A dead year, and said, "I will hew thee a tomb! 'All ...
The prayer of Noah. The man went forth by nightAnd listened; and the earth was dark and still,And he was ...
(A Humble Imitation)"And birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave."It is the noon of night,And the world's Great ...
Once upon a time, I layFast asleep at dawn of day;Windows open to the south,Fancy pouting her sweet mouthTo my ...
I go beyond the commandment.'So be it. Then mine be the blame,The loss, the lack, the yearning, till life's last ...
They tell strange things of the primeval earth,But things that be are never strange to thoseAmong them. And we know ...
I.An empty sky, a world of heather, Purple of foxglove, yellow of broom;We two among them wading together, Shaking out honey, treading ...
(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 ...
Into the rock the road is cut full deep, At its low ledges village children play,From its high rifts fountains of ...
We reached the place by night, And heard the waves breaking:They came to meet us with candles alight To show the path ...
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 ...
'LOOKING OVER A GATE AT A POOL IN A FIELD'What change has made the pastures sweetAnd reached the daisies at ...
I.'And you brought him home.' 'I did, ay Ronald, it rested with me.''Love!' 'Yes.' 'I would fain you were not ...
Marvels of sleep, grown cold! Who hath not longed to foldWith pitying ruth, forgetful of their bliss, Those cherub forms that lie, With ...
CHILD AND BOATMAN.“Martin, I wonder who makes all the songs.”“You do, sir?” “Yes, I wonder how they come.”“Well, boy, I wonder ...
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 read upon that book,Which down the golden gulf doth let us lookOn the sweet days of pastoral majesty; I read ...
I.Laura, my Laura! 'Yes, mother!' 'I want you, Laura; come down.''What is it, mother—what, dearest? O your loved face how ...
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 ...
I passed an inland-cliff precipitate; From tiny caves peeped many a soot-black poll;In each a mother-martin sat elate, And of the news ...
I.Who pipes upon the long green hill, Where meadow grass is deep?The white lamb bleats but followeth on— Follow the clean white ...
I saw when I looked up, on either hand, A pale high chalk-cliff, reared aloft in white;A narrowing rent soon closed ...
"Let us now go even unto Bethlehem."O Night of nights! O night Desired of man so long!The ancient heavens fled forth ...
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