Jean Ingelow
Jean Ingelow
Jean Ingelow, was an English poet and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 March 1820
god hidden wrong
You Moon! Have you done something wrong in heaven, / That God has hidden your face?
english-poet
Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.
happiness song heart
I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music within and a song, And echoes did feed on the sweetness, repeating it long. I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music that played itself out in aeolian notes: Then was heard, as a far-away bell at long intervals tolled.
feet rose wealth
And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
tired sleep healing
O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland, Thou kind, thou comforting one. For I have seen his face, as I desired, And all my story is done. O, I am tired.
stars twilight moon
The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far asunder,-- There's a sea-ghost all in gray, A tall shape of wonder!
work heart doe
For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
moon heaven faces
You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?
work sea afar
Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.
fog long desert
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...
women sage poet
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
life wish
we wish for more in life rather than more of it.
peace past soul
Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.
tears world showers
Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...