Ocupation: Poet
Life: March 17, 1820 - July 20, 1897
Birthday: March 17
Death: July 20
When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet My days will not be better days, should I forget.
source: Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206
topic: Regret, Thinking, Gone, Sprouts, Remember Something