The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from leaves
And blossom, under heavens of happy blue
Jean Ingelow quote Is there never a chink in the world above
Where they listen for words from below?
Jean Ingelow quote And the saffron flower
Clear as a flame of sacrifice breaks out
Jean Ingelow quote O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung
Jean Ingelow quote How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Jean Ingelow quote Biography
English poet