Jean Ingelow Quotes

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Flowers Heart Heaven Life Miracles Moon

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Ingelow

Life, Beauty, Blessing

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I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

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Life, Thank You, Prayer

Jean Ingelow (1873). “Off the Skelligs: A Novel”, p.571

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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

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Flower, Moon, Night

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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.

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Heart, Thinking, Cheerful

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.227

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Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

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Men, Miracle

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

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we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

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Life, Wish

Jean Ingelow (1873). “Off the Skelligs: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.293

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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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Prayer, Long, Thank God

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Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.

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Tears, World, This World

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

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Sorrow, Sparrows, Cry

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.19

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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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Children, Angel, Sleep

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

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I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

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Depression, Suicide, Want

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Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

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Inspirational, Teenage, Teens

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.83

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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.

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Regret, Thinking, Remember Something

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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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, Father, Men

Jean Ingelow, “A Story Of Doom: Book Vii.”

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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

Jean Ingelow (1913). “Poems by Jean Ingelow”

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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.

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Life, Long, Desire

Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”

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It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

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Happiness, Happy, Fashion

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.208

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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, Song, Heart

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.187

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I am athirst for God, the living God.

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God

Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”

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Children bring their own love with them when they come.

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Children, Headstone

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.17

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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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Sweet, Spring, Past

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.39

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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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Summer, Spring, Long

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.57

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It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

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Life Is Hard, Hard Life, Reason

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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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Sleep, Healing, Tired

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

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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, Wine, Moon

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

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Born: March 17, 1820
Died: July 20, 1897
Occupation: Poet
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