Jean Ingelow
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.Collection: Sad
Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.Collection: Gardening
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.Collection: Life
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.Collection: Nature
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
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.
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
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.Collection: Heart
we wish for more in life rather than more of it.Collection: Life
I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answeredCollection: Prayer
Children bring their own love with them when they come.Collection: Children
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.Collection: Sorrow
Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.Collection: Tears
I am athirst for God, the living God.Collection: God
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.Collection: Inspirational
I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.Collection: Depression
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.Collection: Happiness
Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Flower
There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.Collection: Rain
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.Collection: Greatness
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.Collection: Ocean
You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?Collection: Moon
People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.Collection: People
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.Collection: Fog
Man is the miracle in nature. 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.Collection: Men
O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!Collection: Flower