Sea-Mews In Winter Time (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I walked beside a dark gray sea. And said, "O world, how cold thou art!Thou poor white world, I pity thee, For ...
Jean Ingelow Poems (89 Poems)
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 ...
Songs with Preludes: Regret (Jean Ingelow Poems)
O that word REGRET!There have been nights and morns when we have sighed,“Let us alone, Regret! We are contentTo throw thee ...
Songs of the Voices of Birds: The Nightingale Heard by the Unsatisfied Heart (Jean Ingelow Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Songs of the Voices of Birds: The Warbling of Blackbirds (Jean Ingelow Poems)
When I hear the waters fretting, When I see the chestnut lettingAll her lovely blossom falter down, I think, “Alas the ...
Thick Orchards, All in White (Jean Ingelow Poems)
"The time of the singing of birds is come." Thick orchards, all in white, Stand 'neath blue voids of light,And birds among ...
A Sea Song (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Old Albion sat on a crag of late. And sang out--"Ahoy! ahoy!Long, life to the captain, good luck to the mate.And ...
Contrasted Songs: Song Of The Going Away (Jean Ingelow Poems)
“Old man, upon the green hillside, With yellow flowers besprinkled o’er,How long in silence wilt thou bide At this low stone door?“I ...
A Wedding Song (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Come up the broad river, the Thames, my Dane, My Dane with the beautiful eyes!Thousands and thousands await thee full fain, And ...
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 ...
Contrasted Songs: Song Of Margaret (Jean Ingelow Poems)
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Sweet are His ways who rules above (Jean Ingelow Poems)
"Though I take the wings of the morning."Sweet are His ways who rules above, He gives from wrath a sheltering place; But ...
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 ...
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 ...
Midsummer Night, Not Dark, Not Light (Jean Ingelow Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
An Arrow-Slit (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I clomb full high the belfry tower Up to yon arrow-slit, up and away,I said 'let me look on my heart's ...
The Lover Pleads (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I.When I had guineas many a oneNought else I lack 'neath the sun,I had two eyes the bluest seen,A perfect ...
Contrasted Songs: Remonstrance (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Daughters of Eve! your mother did not well: She laid the apple in your father’s hand,And we have read, O wonder! ...
Like A Laverock In The Lift (Jean Ingelow Poems)
It's we two, it's we two, it's we two for aye,All the world, and we two, and Heaven be our ...
Thou wert far off, and in the sight of heaven (Jean Ingelow Poems)
"And fell on his neck, and kissed him."Thou wert far off, and in the sight of heaven Dead. And thy Father ...
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 ...
Looking Down (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Mountains of sorrow, I have heard your moans, And the moving of your pines; but we sit high On your green shoulders, ...
Fancy (Jean Ingelow Poems)
O fancy, if thou flyest, come back anon, Thy fluttering wings are soft as love's first word, And fragrant as the feathers ...
Loss And Waste (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Up to far Osteroe and Suderoe The deep sea-floor lies strewn with Spanish wrecks,O'er minted gold the fair-haired fishers go, O'er sunken ...
On A Picture (Jean Ingelow Poems)
As a forlorn soul waiting by the Styx Dimly expectant of lands yet more dim,Might peer afraid where shadows change and ...
The White Moon Wasteth (Jean Ingelow Poems)
The white moon wasteth,And cold morn hasteth Athwart the snow,The red east burnethAnd the tide turneth, And thou must go.Think not, sad ...