Jean Ingelow Quotes

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

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  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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• 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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• 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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• How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

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  Stars, Rocks, Sky

  Jean Ingelow (1863). “Poems”, p.47

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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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• 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

  Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”

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

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  Brother, Way, Bitter

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

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

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  Moon, Heaven, Done

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

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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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  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.

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  Mother, Humble, Mind

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Sweet, Feet, Bees

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

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

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  Women, Sage, Poet

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

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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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• 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, Heart, Doe

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

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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, Sea, Afar

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

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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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