Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

Jean Ingelow wrote some other good things but nothing at all equalling this; while Jean Ingelow also wrote too much and too long. A reading of the same poem forms a scene in chapter 7 of D. The last years of her life were spent in Kensington and Jean Ingelow outlived her popularity as a poet.

Jean Ingelow (17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897) was an English poet and novelist.