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1820–1897 England

Jean Ingelow (March 17, 1820 – July 20, 1897) was an English poet and novelist.

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Also known as: Ingelow, Jean

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Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire—
Our only greatness is that we aspire.

The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we chiefly lean upon? or does she truly impart of what is really in her to us?

Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)

And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.

Poems (1863)

Divine Love came down to take on itself our sins, but there is no Saviour to do the like for our mistakes.

Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879)

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

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.

Poems (1863)

The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.

Poems (1863)

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

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

To bear, to nurse, to rear,
To watch and then to lose:
To see my bright ones disappear,
Drawn up like morning dews.

Poems (1863)

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

Work is its own best earthly need,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought these marvellous isles that bloom afar.

The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

I am glad to think
I am not bound to make the wrong go right;
But only to discover, and to do
With cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

If we consider women whose lot it is to inspire deep affection, we shall sometimes find them, not those who can most generously bestow, but those who can most generously receive.

Don John (1881)

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.

Learn that to love is the one way to know,
Or God or man: it is not love received
That maketh man to know the inner life
Of them that love him; his own love bestowed
Shall do it.

A Story of Doom (1867)

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.

It seemed proper indeed to crowd the pages with children, for in real life they run all over; the world is covered thickly with the prints of their little footsteps, though, as a rule, books written for grown-up people are kept almost clear of them.

Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)

[O]ne must have a certain amount of both intelligence and knowledge to be amazed even at the most extraordinary things.

Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872)

[W]e wish for more in life, rather than for more of it.

Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Ingelow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.