Top Ten Best Jean Ingelow Quotes, Poems & Written Works
The Top Ten
1 Man dwells apart, though not alone, He walks among his peers unread; The best of thoughts which he hath known For lack of listeners are not said.
2 Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire Our only greatness is that we aspire.
3 How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!
4 If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
5 There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.
6 Man is the miracle in nature and nature is natural. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested.
7 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.
8 To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch and then to lose, To see my bright ones disappear, Drawn up like morning dews.
9 He waits for us,while,houseless things,We beat about with bruised wings On the dark floods&water-springs,The ruined world..desolate sea;With open windows from the prime All night,all day,He waits sublime,Until..fulness of..time Decreed from His eternity
10 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.
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