Jean Ingelow Quotes

• I have lived to thank G-d that all my prayers have not been answered.

  Jean Ingelow

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

  Jean Ingelow

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

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

  Jean Ingelow

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

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

  Jean Ingelow

• 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.

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

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• Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

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

  Jean Ingelow

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

  Jean Ingelow

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

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

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Jean Ingelow (13)

Birth:	17th March, 1820
Death:	20th July, 1897
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

Jean Ingelow was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. She was an English poet and novelist. Her work often focused on religious introspection. In the United States, her poems obtained great public acclaim, and the collection was said to have sold 200,000 copies. She wrote several books include: A story of doom and other Poems, Fated to Be Free (novel), Off the Skelligs (novel), Sarah de Berenger (novel), Don John (novel), The shepherd lady and other poems, The Complete Poems of Jean Ingelow, and Poems of the Old Days and the New. She also wrote Studies for Stories, Stories told to a Child, Mopsa the Fairy, and other stories for children.

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