Custer, and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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American Literature – American Poetry – Ella Wheeler Wilcox – Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Custer, and Other Poems

The World’s Need # Custer, and Other Poems
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind, … Continue Reading …

High Noon # Custer, and Other Poems
Time’s finger on the dial of my life
Points to high noon! and yet the half-spent day
Leaves less than half remaining, for the dark, … Continue Reading …

Transformation # Custer, and Other Poems
She waited in a rose-hued room;
A wanton-hearted creature she,
But beautiful and bright to see … Continue Reading …

Thought-Magnets # Custer, and Other Poems
With each strong thought, with every earnest longing
For aught thou deemest needful to thy soul,
Invisible vast forces are set thronging … Continue Reading …

Smiles # Custer, and Other Poems
Smile a little, smile a little,
As you go along,
Not alone when life is pleasant, … Continue Reading …

The Undiscovered Country # Custer, and Other Poems
Man has explored all countries and all lands,
And made his own the secrets of each clime.
Now, ere the world has fully reached its prime, … Continue Reading …

The Universal Route # Custer, and Other Poems
As we journey along, with a laugh and a song,
We see, on youth’s flower-decked slope,
Like a beacon of light, shining fair on the sight, … Continue Reading …

Earthly Pride # Custer, and Other Poems
How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride,
The diamond is but charcoal purified, … Continue Reading …

Unanswered Prayers # Custer, and Other Poems
Like some school master, kind in being stern,
Who hears the children crying o’er their slates
And calling, “Help me master!” yet helps not, … Continue Reading …

Thanksgiving # Custer, and Other Poems
We walk on starry fields of white
And do not see the daisies;
For blessings common in our sight … Continue Reading …

A Maiden To Her Mirror # Custer, and Other Poems
He said he loved me! Then he called my hair
Silk threads wherewith sly Cupid strings his bow,
My cheek a rose leaf fallen on new snow; … Continue Reading …

The Kettle # Custer, and Other Poems
There’s many a house of grandeur,
With turret, tower and dome,
That knows not peace or comfort, … Continue Reading …

Contrasts # Custer, and Other Poems
I see the tall church steeples,
They reach so far, so far,
But the eyes of my heart see the world’s great mart, … Continue Reading …

Thy Ship # Custer, and Other Poems
Hadst thou a ship, in whose vast hold lay stored
The priceless riches of all climes and lands,
Say, wouldst thou let it float upon the seas … Continue Reading …

The Tryst # Custer, and Other Poems
Just when all hope had perished in my soul,
And balked desire made havoc with my mind,
My cruel Ladye suddenly grew kind, … Continue Reading …

Life # Custer, and Other Poems
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong, … Continue Reading …

A Marine Etching # Custer, and Other Poems
A yacht from its harbor ropes pulled free,
And leaped like a steed o’er the race track blue, … Continue Reading …

The Duel # Custer, and Other Poems
Oh many a duel the world has seen
That was bitter with hate, that was red with gore,
But I sing of a duel by far more cruel … Continue Reading …

Love Thyself Last # Custer, and Other Poems
Love thyself last. Look near, behold thy duty
To those who walk beside thee down life’s road;
Make glad their days by little acts of beauty, … Continue Reading …

Christmas Fancies # Custer, and Other Poems
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago.
And etched on vacant places, … Continue Reading …

The River # Custer, and Other Poems
I am a river flowing from God’s sea
Through devious ways. He mapped my course for me;
I cannot change it; mine alone the toil … Continue Reading …

Sorry # Custer, and Other Poems
There is much that makes me sorry as I journey down life’s way.
And I seem to see more pathos in poor human lives each day.
I’m sorry for the strong brave men, who shield the weak from harm, … Continue Reading …

The Old Wooden Cradle # Custer, and Other Poems
Good-bye to the cradle, the dear wooden cradle
The rude hand of Progress has thrust it aside.
No more to its motion o’er sleep’s fairy ocean, … Continue Reading …

Ambition’s Trail # Custer, and Other Poems
If all the end of this continuous striving
Were simply to attain,
How poor would seem the planning and contriving … Continue Reading …

The Traveled Man # Custer, and Other Poems
Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out,
The ships all sunk among the coral strands.
I am so very weary, yea so worn out, … Continue Reading …

Uncontrolled # Custer, and Other Poems
The mighty forces of mysterious space
Are one by one subdued by lordly man.
The awful lightning that for eons ran … Continue Reading …

The Tulip Bed At Greeley Square # Custer, and Other Poems
You know that oasis, fresh and fair
In the city desert, as Greeley square? … Continue Reading …

Will # Custer, and Other Poems
You will be what you will to be;
Let failure find its false content
In that poor word “environment,” … Continue Reading …

To An Astrologer # Custer, and Other Poems
Nay, seer, I do not doubt thy mystic lore,
Nor question that the tenor of my life,
Past, present and the future, is revealed … Continue Reading …

The Tendril’s Faith # Custer, and Other Poems
Under the snow in the dark and the cold,
A pale little sprout was humming;
Sweetly it sang, ‘neath the frozen mold, … Continue Reading …

The Times # Custer, and Other Poems
The times are not degenerate. Man’s faith
Mounts higher than of old. No crumbling creed
Can take from the immortal soul the need … Continue Reading …

The Question # Custer, and Other Poems
Beside us in our seeking after pleasures,
Through all our restless striving after fame,
Through all our search for worldly gains and treasures, … Continue Reading …

Sorrow’s Uses # Custer, and Other Poems
The uses of sorrow I comprehend
Better and better at each year’s end. … Continue Reading …

If # Custer, and Other Poems
Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let
No “If” arise on which to lay the blame.
Man makes a mountain of that puny word, … Continue Reading …

Which Are You? # Custer, and Other Poems
There are two kinds of people on earth to-day;
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say. … Continue Reading …

The Creed To Be # Custer, and Other Poems
Our thoughts are molding unmade spheres,
And, like a blessing or a curse,
They thunder down the formless years, … Continue Reading …

Music In The Flat # Custer, and Other Poems
When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat;
I had a taste for singing and playing and all that.
And Tom, who loved to hear me, said he hoped I would not stop … Continue Reading …

Inspiration # Custer, and Other Poems
Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy,
Is inspiration, eager to pursue,
But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy, … Continue Reading …

The Wish # Custer, and Other Poems
Should some great angel say to me to-morrow,
“Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the start,
But God will grant, in pity, for thy sorrow, … Continue Reading …

Three Friends # Custer, and Other Poems
Of all the blessings which my life has known,
I value most, and most praise God for three:
Want, Loneliness and Pain, those comrades true, … Continue Reading …

You Never Can Tell # Custer, and Other Poems
You never can tell when you send a word,
Like an arrow shot from a bow
By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, … Continue Reading …

Here And Now # Custer, and Other Poems
Here, in the heart of the world,
Here, in the noise and the din,
Here, where our spirits were hurled … Continue Reading …

Unconquered # Custer, and Other Poems
However skilled and strong art thou, my foe,
However fierce is thy relentless hate
Though firm thy hand, and strong thy aim, and straight … Continue Reading …

All That Love Asks # Custer, and Other Poems
“All that I ask,” says Love, “is just to stand
And gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes;
For in their depths lies largest Paradise. … Continue Reading …

Does It Pay # Custer, and Other Poems
If one poor burdened toiler o’er life’s road,
Who meets us by the way,
Goes on less conscious of his galling load, … Continue Reading …

Sestina # Custer, and Other Poems
I wandered o’er the vast green plains of youth,
And searched for Pleasure. On a distant height
Fame’s silhouette stood sharp against the skies. … Continue Reading …

The Optimist # Custer, and Other Poems
The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wing
Or note enlivened the depressing wood,
A soiled and sullen, stubborn snowdrift stood … Continue Reading …

The Pessimist # Custer, and Other Poems
The pessimistic locust, last to leaf,
Though all the world is glad, still talks of grief.

The Hammock’s Complaint # Custer, and Other Poems
Who thinks how desolate and strange
To me must seem the autumn’s change,
When housed in attic or in chest, … Continue Reading …

Life’s Harmonies # Custer, and Other Poems
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow,
Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, … Continue Reading …

Preaching vs. Practice # Custer, and Other Poems
It is easy to sit in the sunshine
And talk to the man in the shade;
It is easy to float in a well-trimmed boat, … Continue Reading …

An Old Man To His Sleeping Young Bride # Custer, and Other Poems
As when the old moon lighted by the tender
And radiant crescent of the new is seen,
And for a moment’s space suggests the splendor … Continue Reading …

I Am # Custer, and Other Poems
I know not whence I came,
I know not whither I go;
But the fact stands clear that I am here … Continue Reading …

Two Nights # Custer, and Other Poems
One night was full of rapture and delight—
Of reunited arms and swooning kisses,
And all the unnamed and unnumbered blisses … Continue Reading …

Preparation # Custer, and Other Poems
We must not force events, but rather make
The heart soil ready for their coming, as
The earth spreads carpets for the feet of Spring, … Continue Reading …

Custer # Custer, and Other Poems
– Book First # Custer, and Other Poems
All valor died not on the plains of Troy.
Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy
To sing of deeds as dauntless and as brave … Continue Reading …
– Book Second # Custer, and Other Poems
Oh, for the power to call to aid, of mine
Own humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.
Then might she fitly sing, and only then, … Continue Reading …
– Book Third # Custer, and Other Poems
As in the long dead days marauding hosts
Of Indians came from far Siberian coasts,
And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their grounds, … Continue Reading …

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