55 Quotes by Jean Ingelow

Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.

There is but halting for the wearied foot; The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed; One stronger far than reason mastered her. It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

Children bring their own love with them when they come.