Quotes by Jean Ingelow - Page 1

I am athirst for God, the living God.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
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I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Depression
Dies
Suicide
Want
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we wish for more in life rather than more of it.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Life
Wish
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Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Tears
This World
World
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It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Hard Life
Life Is Hard
Reason
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Children bring their own love with them when they come.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Children
Headstone
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How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!
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Time
Happy Day
Long
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Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Gardening
Ankles
Lucky
Against
Did
Her
Nod
She
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Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Men
Miracle
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O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!
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Daffodil
Flower
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It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Happiness
Happy
Fashion
Joy
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And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
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Affront
Heart
Pain
Years
Stir
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I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Life
Thank You
Prayer
Thank God
Answered
Lived
Prayers
Thank
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A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Beauty
Life
Blessedness
Blessing
Great Idea
Hunger
Ideas
Idea
Healthful
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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Nature
Flower
Looks
Moon
Night
Flowers
Many
See
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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Cry
Sorrow
Sparrows
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There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Despair
Heaven
Rain
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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Sad
Break
Sorrow
Build
Cries
Forth
Leaves
Sparrow
Wakes
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O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Women
Poet
Sage
Said
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Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Aspire
Greatness
Reign
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You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?
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Done
Heaven
Moon
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I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered
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Long
Prayer
Thank God
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People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Display
Obscurity
People
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And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Bitter
Brother
Way
Word
Met
Waxed
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Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Inspirational
Teenage
Teens
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And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
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Feet
Rose
Wealth
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How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Heaven
Pale
Rocks
Sky
Stars
Candles
Gently
Reach
Stored
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For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
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Work
Doe
Failing
Heart
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The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Fog
Long
Red
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From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Life
Desire
Long
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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.
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Work
Afar
Born
Sea
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Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.
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Peace
Past
Soul
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A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Birthday
Smile
Dawn
Rose
Thoughtful
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I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Cheerful
Heart
Thinking
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When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.
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Humble
Mind
Mother
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Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Ocean
Dawn
Land
Lovely
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Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.
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Bees
Feet
Sweet
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I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.
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Long
Spring
Summer
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There is but halting for the wearied foot; The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed; One stronger far than reason mastered her. It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.
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Life
Feet
Stronger
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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!
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Moon
Stars
Twilight
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Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
All Things
Dear
Flower
Good Day
Light
Opening
Opening Day
Waiting
Asleep
Childish
Flowers
Somewhat
Drift
Thoughts
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O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep; Thou bearest angels to us in the night, Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep; Love is a pouting child.
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Angel
Children
Sleep
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Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.
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Flower
Moon
Wine
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What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world, the hills, the sward-- They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them.
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Past
Spring
Sweet
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Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Men
Miracle
Wonderful
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When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet My days will not be better days, should I forget.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Regret
Remember Something
Thinking
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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.
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Healing
Sleep
Tired
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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.
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Happiness
Heart
Song
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What is thy thought? There is no miracle? There is a great one, which thou hast not read, And never shalt escape. Thyself, O man, Thou art the miracle. Ay, thou thyself, Being in the world and of the world, thyself, Hast breathed in breath from Him that made the world. Thou art thy Father's copy of Himself,-- Thou art thy Father's miracle.
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Art
Men
Father
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