Afterthought, from Afternoon at a Parsonage

About this book

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of "Afterthought" by Jean Ingelow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 17, 2022. ------ Jean Ingelow was English poet and novelist, who died 125 years ago, on July 20, 1897. This poem is a sort of epilogue of the longer poem, Afternoon at a Parsonage and explores the proximity, yet distance, between people in comparison to islands and stars. - Summary by TriciaG