Arts & Sciences

The Sleep of Sigismund: XL

by Jean Ingelow 1820–1897

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.

Arts & Sciences

And Malva, must she toil? E'en so.
Full patiently she takes her part,
All, all so new. But her deep heart
Forebodes more change than shall be shown
Betwixt a settle and a throne.
And lost in musing she will go
About the winding of her silk,
About the skimming her goat's milk,
About the kneading of her bread,
And water drawn from her well-head.

MLA

Ingelow, Jean. “The Sleep of Sigismund: XL.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ingelow/81/.

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