Poetry Codex

Victorian

Jean Ingelow

1820–1897

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) was an English poet and novelist, immensely popular in her lifetime, admired for narrative ballads and devotional lyrics of home, sea, and childhood.

Her poem The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571), a ballad of a great flood, remained a schoolroom favourite for generations.

Poems (207)

  1. The Dreams That Came True
  2. Child and Boatman
  3. The Nightingale Heard by the Unsatisfied Heart
  4. Sand Martins
  5. A Poet in His Youth, and the Cuckoo-bird
  6. A Raven in a White Chine
  7. The Warbling of Blackbirds
  8. Sea-mews in Winter Time
  9. Laurance: I
  10. Laurance: II
  11. Laurance: III
  12. Apprenticed
  13. IV
  14. V.
  15. VI
  16. VII
  17. VIII
  18. IX
  19. X.
  20. The Coming in of the "mermaiden."
  21. A Morn of May
  22. Sailing Beyond Seas
  23. Remonstrance
  24. Song for the Night of Christ's Resurrection
  25. Song of Margaret
  26. Song of the Going Away
  27. An Imperfect Fable with a Doubtful Moral
  28. Wedlock
  29. Regret
  30. Lamentation
  31. Dominion
  32. Friendship
  33. Rosamund
  34. Preludes to a Penny Reading
  35. Preludes to a Penny Reading: III
  36. Duet
  37. Preludes to a Penny Reading: I
  38. Preludes to a Penny Reading: II
  39. Kismet
  40. Dora
  41. Speranza
  42. The Beginning
  43. In the Nursery
  44. The Australian Bell-bird
  45. Loss and Waste
  46. On a Picture
  47. The Sleep of Sigismund
  48. The Sleep of Sigismund: I
  49. The Sleep of Sigismund: IV
  50. The Sleep of Sigismund: V
  51. The Sleep of Sigismund: VII
  52. The Sleep of Sigismund: VIII
  53. The Sleep of Sigismund: IX
  54. The Sleep of Sigismund: XI
  55. The Sleep of Sigismund: XII
  56. The Sleep of Sigismund: XIV
  57. The Sleep of Sigismund: XV
  58. The Sleep of Sigismund: XVI
  59. The Sleep of Sigismund: XVII
  60. The Sleep of Sigismund: XVIII
  61. The Sleep of Sigismund: XIX
  62. The Sleep of Sigismund: XX
  63. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXI
  64. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXII
  65. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXIII
  66. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXIV
  67. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXV
  68. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXVI
  69. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXVII
  70. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXVIII
  71. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXIX
  72. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXX
  73. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXI
  74. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXII
  75. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXIII
  76. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXIV
  77. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXV
  78. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXVI
  79. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXVII
  80. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXVIII
  81. The Sleep of Sigismund: XXXIX
  82. The Sleep of Sigismund: XL
  83. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLI
  84. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLII
  85. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLIII
  86. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLIV
  87. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLV
  88. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLVI
  89. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLVII
  90. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLVIII
  91. The Sleep of Sigismund: XLIX
  92. The Sleep of Sigismund: L
  93. The Maid-martyr
  94. VI
  95. X.
  96. XIII
  97. The White Moon Wasteth
  98. An Arrow-slit
  99. Wendover
  100. 'if I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem.'
  101. Nature, for Nature's Sake
  102. Perdita
  103. A Parson's Letter to a Young Poet
  104. The Monitions of the Unseen
  105. Poems
  106. Aged Eight Years
  107. Aged Nine Years
  108. (asleep in the Daytime.)
  109. The Snowdrop Monument (in Lichfield Cathedral)
  110. The Measureless Gulfs of Air Are Full of Thee
  111. Thou Wert Far Off and in the Sight of Heaven
  112. Thick Orchards All in White
  113. Sweet Are His Ways Who Rules Above
  114. O Night of Nights!
  115. Dear is the Lost Wife to a Lone Man's Heart
  116. Weeping and Wailing Needs Must Be
  117. Jesus, the Lamb of God
  118. Thou Hast Been Alway Good to Me
  119. Thou That Sleepest Not Afraid
  120. Now Winter Past, the White-thorn Bower
  121. Such as Have Not Gold to Bring Thee
  122. A Morn of Guilt, an Hour of Doom
  123. Mary of Magdala
  124. Would I, to Save My Dear Child?
  125. At One Again
  126. Fancy
  127. Compensation
  128. Looking Down
  129. Work
  130. Wishing
  131. To ----
  132. On the Borders of Cannock Chase
  133. An Ancient Chess King
  134. Comfort in the Night
  135. Though All Great Deeds
  136. A Snow Mountain
  137. (a Woman Speaks.)
  138. (a Man Speaks.)
  139. Love
  140. Failure
  141. (written for a Friend's Birthday.)
  142. Not in Vain I Waited
  143. A Gleaning Song
  144. With a Diamond
  145. Married Lovers
  146. A Winter Song
  147. Binding Sheaves
  148. The Mariner's Cave
  149. A Reverie
  150. Defton Wood
  151. The Long White Seam
  152. An Old Wife's Song
  153. Cold and Quiet
  154. Sledge Bells
  155. Midsummer Night, Not Dark, Not Light
  156. The Bridegroom to His Bride
  157. The Fairy Woman's Song
  158. Above the Clouds
  159. Sleep and Time
  160. Bees and Other Fellow-creatures
  161. The Gypsy's Selling Song
  162. A Wooing Song
  163. A Courting Song
  164. Love's Thread of Gold
  165. The Leaves of Lign Aloes
  166. The Days Without Alloy
  167. Feathers and Moss
  168. On the Rocks by Aberdeen
  169. Like a Laverock in the Lift
  170. Song for a Babe
  171. Give Us Love and Give Us Peace
  172. Margaret by the Mere Side
  173. Margaret in the Xebec
  174. Page 358
  175. Divided
  176. Honors
  177. Requiescat in Pace
  178. Scholar and Carpenter
  179. The Star's Monument
  180. A Dead Year
  181. Reflections
  182. The Letter L
  183. The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire
  184. Songs of Seven: Seven Times One. Exultation
  185. Songs of Seven: Seven Times Two. Romance
  186. Songs of Seven: Seven Times Three. Love
  187. Songs of Seven: Seven Times Four. Maternity
  188. Songs of Seven: Seven Times Five. Widowhood
  189. Songs of Seven: Seven Times Six. Giving in Marriage
  190. Songs of Seven: Seven Times Seven. Longing for Home
  191. A Cottage in a Chine
  192. Persephone
  193. A Sea Song
  194. Brothers, and a Sermon
  195. A Wedding Song
  196. The Four Bridges
  197. A Mother Showing the Portrait of Her Child
  198. Strife and Peace
  199. Songs of the Night Watches: The First Watch. Tired
  200. Songs of the Night Watches: The Middle Watch
  201. A Lily and a Lute
  202. Winstanley
  203. A Vine-arbour in the Far West
  204. Lovers at the Lake Side
  205. Sweet Is Childhood
  206. Song of the Old Love
  207. The Singing-Lesson

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