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Poems by Jean Ingelow

Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897)

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VOLUME I.
  
DEDICATION
  
DIVIDED.
  
HONOURS—Part I.
  
HONOURS—Part II.
  
REQUIESCAT IN PACE!
  
SUPPER AT THE MILL.
  
SCHOLAR AND CARPENTER.
  
THE STAR'S MONUMENT.
  
A DEAD YEAR.
  
REFLECTIONS.
  
THE LETTER L.
  
THE HIGH TIDE ON THE COAST OF LINCOLNSHIRE.
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AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE.
  
Preface.
  
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Afterthought.
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SONGS OF SEVEN.
  
SEVEN TIMES ONE. EXULTATION.
  
SEVEN TIMES TWO. ROMANCE.
  
SEVEN TIMES THREE. LOVE.
  
SEVEN TIMES FOUR. MATERNITY.
  
SEVEN TIMES FIVE. WIDOWHOOD.
  
SEVEN TIMES SIX. GIVING IN MARRIAGE.
  
SEVEN TIMES SEVEN. LONGING FOR HOME.
  
A COTTAGE IN A CHINE.
  
PERSEPHONE.
  
A SEA SONG.
  
BROTHERS, AND A SERMON.
  
A WEDDING SONG.
  
THE FOUR BRIDGES.
  
A MOTHER SHOWING THE PORTRAIT OF HER CHILD.
  
STRIFE AND PEACE.
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LETTERS ON LIFE AND THE MORNING.
  
A PARSON'S LETTER TO A YOUNG POET.
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VOLUME II.
  
THE DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE.
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SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS.
  
INTRODUCTION.
  
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE UNSATISFIED HEART.
  
SAND MARTINS.
  
A POET IN HIS YOUTH, AND THE CUCKOO-BIRD.
  
A RAVEN IN A WHITE CHINE.
  
THE WARBLING OF BLACKBIRDS.
  
SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME.
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LAURENCE.
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III
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SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES,
  
INTRODUCTORY.
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THE FIRST WATCH.
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VII
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VIII
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THE MIDDLE WATCH.
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III
  
THE MORNING WATCH.
  
CONCLUDING SONG OF DAWN.
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SONNETS.
  
WORK.
  
AN ANCIENT CHESS KING.
  
A SNOW MOUNTAIN.
  
SLEEP.
  
LOVE.
  
PROMISING.
  
COMFORT IN THE NIGHT.
  
THOUGH ALL GREAT DEEDS.
  
WISHING.
  
TO ---.
  
COMPENSATION.
  
FANCY.
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A STORY OF DOOM.
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
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BOOK V.
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BOOK VI.
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BOOK VII.
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BOOK VIII.
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BOOK IX.
  
SAILING BEYOND SEAS.
  
REMONSTRANCE.
  
SONG FOR THE NIGHT OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION.
  
WITH A DIAMOND.
  
SONG OF MARGARET.
  
SONG OF THE GOING AWAY.
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A LILY AND A LUTE.
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THE LONG WHITE SEAM.
  
NOT IN VAIN I WAITED.
  
THE SNOWDROP MONUMENT (IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL).
  
COLD AND QUIET.
  
GLADYS AND HER ISLAND.
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SONGS WITH PRELUDES.
  
WEDLOCK.
  
REGRET.
  
LAMENTATION.
  
DOMINION.
  
FRIENDSHIP.
  
WINSTANLEY.

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THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE UNSATISFIED HEART.

When in a May-day hush
Chanteth the Missel-thrush,
The harp o' the heart makes answer with murmurous stirs;
When Robin-redbreast sings,
We think on budding springs,
And Culvers when they coo are love's remembrancers.
But thou in the trance of light
Stayest the feeding night,
And Echo makes sweet her lips with the utterance wise,
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And casts at our glad feet,
In a wisp of fancies fleet,
Life's fair, life's unfulfilled, impassioned prophecies.
Her central thought full well
Thou hast the wit to tell,
To take the sense o' the dark and to yield it so;
The moral of moon light
To set in a cadence bright,
And sing our loftiest dream that we thought none did know.
I have no nest as thou,
Bird on the blossoming bough,
Yet over thy tongue outfloweth the song o' my soul,
Chanting, ‘Forego thy strife,
The spirit out-acts the life,
But much is seldom theirs who can perceive the whole.
‘Thou drawest a perfect lot
All thine, but holden not,
Lie low, at the feet of beauty that ever shall bide;
There might be sorer smart
Than thine, far-seeing heart,
Whose fate is still to yearn, and not be satisfied.’
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