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

When youth was high, and life was new And days sped musical and fleet, She stood amid the morning dew, And sang her earliest measures sweet,-- Sang as the lark sings, speeding f...

Niloiya said to Noah, "What aileth thee, My master, unto whom is my desire, The father of my sons?" He answered her, "Mother of many children, I have heard The Voice again." "Ah...

Above the head of great Methuselah There lay two demons in the opened roof Invisible, and gathered up his words; For when the Elder prophesied, it came About, that hidden things...

Now ere the sunrise, while the morning star Hung yet behind the pine bough, woke and prayed The world's great shipwright, and his soul was glad Because the Voice was favorable....

And while he spoke there was a noise without; The curtains of the door were flung aside, And some with heavy feet bare in, and set A litter on the floor. The Master lay Upon it,...

And when two days were over, Japhet said, "Mother, so please you, get a wife for me." The mother answered, "Dost thou mock me, son? 'Tis not the manner of our kin to wed So youn...

Night. Now a tent was pitched, and Japhet sat In the door and watched, for on a litter lay The father of his love. And he was sick To death; but daily he would rouse him up, And...

Then one ran, crying, while Niloiya wrought, "The Master cometh!" and she went within To adorn herself for meeting him. And Shem Went forth and talked with Japhet in the field,...

Now while these evil ones took counsel strange, The son of Lamech journeyed home; and, lo! A company came down, and struck the track As he did enter it. There rode in front Two...

The prayer of Noah. The man went forth by night And listened; and the earth was dark and still, And he was driven of his great distress Into the forest; but the birds of night S...