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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.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sleep, Healing, Tired

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.133

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• How short our happy days appear!
  How long the sorrowful!

  Jean Ingelow

  Time, Long, Happy Day

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.237

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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.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Wine, Moon

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.131

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• O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
  So have all sages said, all poets sung.

  Jean Ingelow

  Women, Sage, Poet

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.84

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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.

  Jean Ingelow

  Work, Sea, Afar

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.232

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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!

  Jean Ingelow

  Stars, Twilight, Moon

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.135

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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.

  Jean Ingelow

  Mother, Humble, Mind

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.192

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• And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

  Jean Ingelow

  Pain, Heart, Years

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.92

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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

  Birthday, Thoughtful, Rose

  Jean Ingelow (1871). “The Monitions of the Unseen: And Poems of Love and Childhood”, p.33

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• There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

  Jean Ingelow

  Rain, Heaven, Despair

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.56

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• Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

  Jean Ingelow

  Greatness, Reign, Aspire

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.244

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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

  Ocean, Land, Lovely

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “Poems”, p.300

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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

  Flower, Good Day, Light

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.264

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• You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

  Jean Ingelow

  Moon, Heaven, Done

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.56

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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.

  Jean Ingelow

  Work, Heart, Doe

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.40

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• And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

  Jean Ingelow

  Brother, Way, Bitter

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.92

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• People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.

  Jean Ingelow

  People, Obscurity, Display

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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

  Fog, Long, Red

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.86

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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

  Men, Miracle, Wonderful

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.175

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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.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Feet, Bees

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.1

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• And the guelder rose
  In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped,
  Her wealth about her feet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Feet, Rose, Wealth

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.124

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• O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Daffodil

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.62

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