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[Illustration: MISS INGELOW'S FORMER HOME.
BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, ENG.
ST. BOTOLPH'S CHURCH IN THE DISTANCE.]
POEMS BY JEAN INGELOW
VOLUME II.
_TO JEAN INGELOW.
When youth was high, and life was new And days sped musical and fleet, She stood amid the morning dew, And sang her earliest measures sweet,— Sang as the lark sings, speeding fair To touch and taste the purer air, To gain a nearer view of Heaven; 'Twas then she sang "The Songs of Seven."
Now, farther on in womanhood, With trainèd voice and ripened art, She gently stands where once she stood, And sings from out her deeper heart. Sing on, dear Singer! sing again; And we will listen to the strain, Till soaring earth greets bending Heaven, And seven-fold songs grow seventy-seven.
SUSAN COOLIDGE_
POEMS
BY
JEAN INGELOW
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.
BOSTON
ROBERTS BROTHERS
1896
AUTHOR'S COMPLETE EDITION.
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
ROSAMUNDECHO AND THE FERRYPRELUDES TO A PENNY READINGKISMETDORASPERANZATHE BEGINNINGIN THE NURSERYTHE AUSTRALIAN BELL-BIRDLOSS AND WASTEON A PICTURETHE SLEEP OF SIGISMUNDA MAID-MARTYRA VINE-ARBOUR IN THE FAR WESTLOVERS AT THE LAKE SIDETHE WHITE MOONAN ARROW-SLITWENDOVERTHE LOVER PLEADSSONG IN THREE PARTS'IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM'NATURE, FOR NATURE'S SAKEPERDITA
SERIOUS POEMS, AND SONGS AND POEMS OF LOVE AND CHILDHOOD.
LETTERS ON LIFE AND THE MORNINGTHE MONITIONS OF THE UNSEENTHE SHEPHERD LADY
POEMS ON THE DEATHS OF THREE CHILDREN. HENRY SAMUEL KATIE
THE SNOWDROP MONUMENT (IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL)
HYMNS. THE MEASURELESS GULFS OF AIR ARE FULL OF THEE THOU WERT FAR OFF AND IN THE SIGHT OF HEAVEN THICK ORCHARDS ALL IN WHITE SWEET ARE HIS WAYS WHO RULES ABOVE O NIGHT OF NIGHTS DEAR IS THE LOST WIFE TO A LONE MAN'S HEART WEEPING AND WAILING NEEDS MUST BE JESUS, THE LAMB OF GOD THOU HAST BEEN ALWAY GOOD TO ME THOU THAT SLEEPEST NOT AFRAID NOW WINTER PAST, THE WHITE-THORN BOWER SUCH AS HAVE NOT GOLD TO BRING THEE A MORN OF GUILT, AN HOUR OF DOOM MARY OF MAGDALA WOULD I, TO SAVE MY DEAR CHILD?
AT ONE AGAIN
SONNETS. FANCY COMPENSATION LOOKING DOWN WORK WISHING TO —— ON THE BORDERS OF CANNOCK CHASE AN ANCIENT CHESS KING COMFORT IN THE NIGHT THOUGH ALL GREAT DEEDS A SNOW MOUNTAIN SLEEP PROMISING LOVE FAILURE
A BIRTHDAY WALKNOT IN VAIN I WAITEDA GLEANING SONGWITH A DIAMONDMARRIED LOVERSA WINTER SONGBINDING SHEAVESTHE MARINER'S CAVEA REVERIEDEFTON WOODTHE LONG WHITE SEAMAN OLD WIFE'S SONGCOLD AND QUIETSLEDGE BELLSMIDSUMMER NIGHT, NOT DARK, NOT LIGHTTHE BRIDEGROOM TO HIS BRIDETHE FAIRY WOMAN'S SONGABOVE THE CLOUDSSLEEP AND TIMEBEES AND OTHER-FELLOW-CREATURESTHE GYPSY'S SELLING SONGA WOOING SONGA COURTING SONGLOVE'S THREAD OF GOLDTHE LEAVES OF LIGN ALOESTHE DAYS WITHOUT ALLOYFEATHERS AND MOSSON