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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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: I opened the doors of
And the guelder rose
In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped,
Her wealth about her feet.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: And the guelder rose<br>In a
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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: O sleep, we are beholden
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: It is not reason which
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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: What change has made the
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: A healthful hunger for a
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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: Such a slender moon, going
People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: People newly emerged from obscurity
Children bring their own love with them when they come.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: Children bring their own love
From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love
To long for, pureness to desire, a mount
Of consecration it were good to scale.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: From henceforth thou shalt learn
We wish for more in life rather than more of it.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: We wish for more in
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: It is a comely fashion
For hearts where wakened love doth lurk,
How fine, how blest a thing is work!
For work does good when reasons fail.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: For hearts where wakened love
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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: A birthday:-and now a day
I am athirst for God, the living God.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: I am athirst for God,
Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: Against her ankles as she
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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: I am glad to think
O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!
Jean Ingelow Quotes: O fateful flower beside the
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: The moon looks upon many
Quoth the Ocean, Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: Quoth the Ocean, Dawn! O
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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: O sleep! O sleep!<br>Do not
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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: Crowds of bees are giddy
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: Youth! youth! how buoyant are
And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: And bitter waxed the fray;
You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?
Jean Ingelow Quotes: You moon, have you done
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.
Jean Ingelow Quotes: What is thy thought? There
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...
Jean Ingelow Quotes: The red Sahara in an
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