Jean Ingelow

Poems (7)

• High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire

  [Time, 1571] / the OLD mayor climbed the belfry tower, …

• Seven Times Four

  Maternity / HEIGH-HO! daisies and buttercups, …

• Seven Times One

  There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover, / There’s no rain left in heaven. …

• Seven Times Six

  Giving in Marriage / TO bear, to nurse, to rear, …

• Seven times Three

  Love / I Leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover, …

• Seven Times Two

  Romance / YOU bells in the steeple, ring out your changes, …

• “Like a laverock in the lift”

  It ’s we two, it ’s we two for aye, / All the world, and we two, and Heaven be our stay! …