Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Maurine and Other Poems

Maurine # Maurine and Other Poems
Part I
I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune,
Oh, beauteous was that morn in early June!
Mellow with sunlight, and with blossoms fair: … Continue Reading …
Part II
To little birds that never tire of humming
About the garden, in the summer weather,
Aunt Ruth compared us, after Helen’s coming, … Continue Reading …
Part III
One golden twelfth‑part of a checkered year;
One summer month, of sunlight, moonlight, mirth
With not a hint of shadows lurking near, … Continue Reading …
Part IV
“Maurine, Maurine! ’tis ten o’clock! arise,
My pretty sluggard! open those dark eyes,
And see where yonder sun is! Do you know … Continue Reading …
Part V
A visit to a cave some miles away
Was next in order. So, one sunny day,
Four prancing steeds conveyed a laughing load … Continue Reading …
Part VI
There was a week of bustle and of hurry;
A stately home echoed to voices sweet,
Calling, replying; and to tripping feet … Continue Reading …
Part VII
With much hard labor and some pleasure fraught,
The months rolled by me noiselessly, that taught
My hand to grow more skillful in its art, … Continue Reading …

Two Sunsets # Maurine and Other Poems
In the fair morning of his life,
When his pure heart lay in his breast,
Panting, with all that wild unrest … Continue Reading …

Unrest # Maurine and Other Poems
In the youth of the year, when the birds were building,
When the green was showing on tree and hedge,
And the tenderest light of all lights was gilding … Continue Reading …

Artist’s Life # Maurine and Other Poems
Of all the waltzes the great Strauss wrote,
Mad with melody, rhythm—rife
From the very first to the final note, … Continue Reading …

Nothing But Stones # Maurine and Other Poems
I think I never passed so sad an hour,
Dear friend, as that one at the church to‑night.
The edifice from basement to the tower … Continue Reading …

The Coquette # Maurine and Other Poems
Alone she sat with her accusing heart,
That, like a restless comrade frightened sleep,
And every thought that found her, left a dart … Continue Reading …

Inevitable # Maurine and Other Poems
To‑day I was so weary and I lay
In that delicious state of semi‑waking,
When baby, sitting with his nurse at play, … Continue Reading …

The Ocean Of Song # Maurine and Other Poems
In a land beyond sight or conceiving,
In a land where no blight is, no wrong,
No darkness, no graves, and no grieving, … Continue Reading …

It Might Have Been # Maurine and Other Poems
We will be what we could be. Do not say,
“It might have been, had not or that, or this.”
No fate can keep us from the chosen way; … Continue Reading …

If # Maurine and Other Poems
Dear love, if you and I could sail away,
With snowy pennons to the winds unfurled,
Across the waters of some unknown bay, … Continue Reading …

Gethsemane # Maurine and Other Poems
In golden youth when seems the earth
A Summer‑land of singing mirth,
When souls are glad and hearts are light, … Continue Reading …

Dust‑Sealed # Maurine and Other Poems
I know not wherefore, but mine eyes
See bloom, where other eyes see blight.
They find a rainbow, a sunrise, … Continue Reading …

Advice # Maurine and Other Poems
I must do as you do? Your way I own
Is a very good way. And still,
There are sometimes two straight roads to a town, … Continue Reading …

Over The Banisters # Maurine and Other Poems
Over the banisters bends a face,
Daringly sweet and beguiling.
Somebody stands in careless grace, … Continue Reading …

Momus, God Of Laughter # Maurine and Other Poems
Though with gods the world is cumbered,
Gods unnamed, and gods unnumbered,
Never god was known to be … Continue Reading …

I Dream # Maurine and Other Poems
Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of Life
In the full meaning of that splendid word.
Its subtle music which few men have heard, … Continue Reading …

The Past # Maurine and Other Poems
I fling my past behind me, like a robe
Worn threadbare in the seams, and out of date.
I have outgrown it. Wherefore should I weep … Continue Reading …

The Sonnet # Maurine and Other Poems
Alone it stands in Poesy’s fair land,
A temple by the muses set apart;
A perfect structure of consummate art, … Continue Reading …

Secrets # Maurine and Other Poems
Think not some knowledge rests with thee alone;
Why, even God’s stupendous secret, Death,
We one by one, with our expiring breath, … Continue Reading …

A Dream # Maurine and Other Poems
That was a curious dream; I thought the three
Great planets that are drawing near the sun
With such unerring certainty, begun … Continue Reading …

Uselessness # Maurine and Other Poems
Let mine not be that saddest fate of all
To live beyond my greater self; to see
My faculties decaying, as the tree … Continue Reading …

Will # Maurine and Other Poems
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul. … Continue Reading …

Winter Rain # Maurine and Other Poems
Falling upon the frozen world last night,
I heard the slow beat of the Winter rain—
Poor foolish drops, down‑dripping all in vain; … Continue Reading …

Applause # Maurine and Other Poems
I hold it one of the sad certain laws
Which makes our failures sometimes seem more kind
Than that success which brings sure loss behind— … Continue Reading …

Life # Maurine and Other Poems
Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee,
Doth bear us on his shoulders for a time.
There is no path too steep for him to climb, … Continue Reading …

Burdened # Maurine and Other Poems
Dear God! there is no sadder fate in life,
Than to be burdened so that you can not
Sit down contented with the common lot … Continue Reading …

The Story # Maurine and Other Poems
They met each other in the glade—
She lifted up her eyes;
Alack the day! Alack the maid! … Continue Reading …

Let Them Go # Maurine and Other Poems
Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, … Continue Reading …

The Engine # Maurine and Other Poems
Into the gloom of the deep, dark night,
With panting breath and a startled scream;
Swift as a bird in sudden flight … Continue Reading …

Nothing New # Maurine and Other Poems
From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary,
Nothing is new that is done or said,
The leaves are telling the same old story— … Continue Reading …

Dreams # Maurine and Other Poems
Thank God for dreams! I, desolate and lone,
In the dark curtained night, did seem to be
The centre where all golden sun‑rays shone, … Continue Reading …

Helena # Maurine and Other Poems
Last night I saw Helena. She whose praise
Of late all men have sounded. She for whom
Young Angus rashly sought a silent tomb … Continue Reading …

Nothing Remains # Maurine and Other Poems
Nothing remains of unrecorded ages
That lie in the silent cemetery of time;
Their wisdom may have shamed our wisest sages, … Continue Reading …

Lean Down # Maurine and Other Poems
Lean down and lift me higher, Josephine!
From the Eternal Hills hast thou not seen
How I do strive for heights? but lacking wings, … Continue Reading …

Comrades # Maurine and Other Poems
I and my Soul are alone to‑day,
All in the shining weather;
We were sick of the world, and we put it away, … Continue Reading …

What Gain? # Maurine and Other Poems
Now, while thy rounded cheek is fresh and fair,
While beauty lingers, laughing, in thine eyes,
Ere thy young heart shall meet the stranger, “Care,” … Continue Reading …

Life # Maurine and Other Poems
I feel the great immensity of life.
All little aims slip from me, and I reach
My yearning soul toward the Infinite. … Continue Reading …

To The West # Maurine and Other Poems
Not to the crowded East,
Where, in a well‑worn groove,
Like the harnessed wheel of a great machine, … Continue Reading …

The Land Of Content # Maurine and Other Poems
I set out for the Land of Content,
By the gay crowded pleasure‑highway,
With laughter, and jesting, I went … Continue Reading …

A Song Of Life # Maurine and Other Poems
In the rapture of life and of living,
I lift up my heart and rejoice,
And I thank the great Giver for giving … Continue Reading …

Warning # Maurine and Other Poems
High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning,
Albeit the sun shone bright; … Continue Reading …

The Christian’s New Year Prayer # Maurine and Other Poems
Thou Christ of mine, thy gracious ear low bending
Through these glad New Year days,
To catch the countless prayers to Heaven ascending— … Continue Reading …

In The Night # Maurine and Other Poems
Sometimes at night, when I sit and write,
I hear the strangest things,—
As my brain grows hot with burning thought, … Continue Reading …

God’s Measure # Maurine and Other Poems
God measures souls by their capacity
For entertaining his best Angel, Love.
Who loveth most is nearest kin to God, … Continue Reading …

A March Snow # Maurine and Other Poems
Let the old snow be covered with the new:
The trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden.
Let it be hidden wholly from our view … Continue Reading …

After The Battles Are Over # Maurine and Other Poems
After the battles are over,
And the war drums cease to beat,
And no more is heard on the hillside … Continue Reading …

Noblesse Oblige # Maurine and Other Poems
I hold it the duty of one who is gifted,
And specially dowered in all men’s sight,
To know no rest till his life is lifted … Continue Reading …

And They Are Dumb # Maurine and Other Poems
I have been across the bridges of the years.
Wet with tears
Were the ties on which I trod, going back … Continue Reading …

Night # Maurine and Other Poems
As some dusk mother shields from all alarms
The tired child she gathers to her breast,
The brunette Night doth fold me in her arms, … Continue Reading …

All For Me # Maurine and Other Poems
The world grows green on a thousand hills—
By a thousand willows the bees are humming,
And a million birds by a million rills, … Continue Reading …

Philosophy # Maurine and Other Poems
At morn the wise man walked abroad,
Proud with the learning of great fools.
He laughed and said, “There is no God— … Continue Reading …

Carlos # Maurine and Other Poems
Last night I knelt low at my lady’s feet.
One soft, caressing hand played with my hair,
And one I kissed and fondled. Kneeling there, … Continue Reading …

The Two Glasses # Maurine and Other Poems
There sat two glasses filled to the brim,
On a rich man’s table, rim to rim.
One was ruddy and red as blood, … Continue Reading …

Through Tears # Maurine and Other Poems
An artist toiled over his pictures;
He labored by night and by day.
He struggled for glory and honor, … Continue Reading …

Into Space # Maurine and Other Poems
If the sad old world should jump a cog
Sometime, in its dizzy spinning,
And go off the track with a sudden jog, … Continue Reading …

Through Dim Eyes # Maurine and Other Poems
Is it the world, or my eyes, that are sadder?
I see not the grace that I used to see
In the meadow‑brook whose song was so glad, or … Continue Reading …

La Mort D’amour # Maurine and Other Poems
When was it that love died? We were so fond,
So very fond, a little while ago.
With leaping pulses, and blood all aglow, … Continue Reading …

The Punished # Maurine and Other Poems
Not they who know the awful gibbet’s anguish,
Not they who, while sad years go by them, in
The sunless cells of lonely prisons languish, … Continue Reading …

Half Fledged # Maurine and Other Poems
I feel the stirrings in me of great things.
New half‑fledged thoughts rise up and beat their wings,
And tremble on the margin of their nest, … Continue Reading …

Love’s Sleep # Maurine and Other Poems
We’ll cover Love with roses,
And sweet sleep he shall take.
None but a fool supposes … Continue Reading …

True Culture # Maurine and Other Poems
The highest culture is to speak no ill;
The best reformer is the man whose eyes
Are quick to see all beauty and all worth; … Continue Reading …

The Voluptuary # Maurine and Other Poems
Oh, I am sick of love reciprocated,
Of hopes fulfilled, ambitions gratified.
Life holds no thing to be anticipated, … Continue Reading …

The Year # Maurine and Other Poems
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times? … Continue Reading …

The Unattained # Maurine and Other Poems
A vision beauteous as the morn,
With heavenly eyes and tresses streaming,
Slow glided o’er a field late shorn … Continue Reading …

In The Crowd # Maurine and Other Poems
How happy they are, in all seeming,
How gay, or how smilingly proud,
How brightly their faces are beaming, … Continue Reading …

Life And I # Maurine and Other Poems
Life and I are lovers, straying
Arm in arm along:
Often like two children Maying, … Continue Reading …

Guerdon # Maurine and Other Poems
Upon the white cheek of the Cherub Year
I saw a tear.
Alas! I murmured, that the Year should borrow … Continue Reading …

Snowed Under # Maurine and Other Poems
Of a thousand things that the Year snowed under—
The busy Old Year who has gone away—
How many will rise in the Spring, I wonder, … Continue Reading …

Platonic # Maurine and Other Poems
I knew it the first of the Summer—
I knew it the same at the end—
That you and your love were plighted, … Continue Reading …

What We Needed # Maurine and Other Poems
What does our country need? Not armies standing
With sabres gleaming ready for the fight.
Not increased navies, skillful and commanding, … Continue Reading …

Leudemann’s‑On‑The‑River # Maurine and Other Poems
Toward even when the day leans down
To kiss the upturned face of night,
Out just beyond the loud‑voiced town … Continue Reading …

In The Long Run # Maurine and Other Poems
In the long run fame finds the deserving man.
The lucky wight may prosper for a day,
But in good time true merit leads the van, … Continue Reading …

Plea To Science # Maurine and Other Poems
O Science reaching backward through the distance,
Most earnest child of God,
Exposing all the secrets of existence, … Continue Reading …

Love’s Burial # Maurine and Other Poems
Let us clear a little space,
And make Love a burial place. … Continue Reading …

Little Blue Hood # Maurine and Other Poems
Every morning and every night
There passes our window near the street,
A little girl with an eye so bright, … Continue Reading …

No Spring # Maurine and Other Poems
Up from the South come the birds that were banished,
Frightened away by the presence of frost.
Back to the vale comes the verdure that vanished, … Continue Reading …

Lippo # Maurine and Other Poems
Now we must part, my Lippo. Even so,
I grieve to see thy sudden pained surprise;
Gaze not on me with such accusing eyes— … Continue Reading …

Midsummer # Maurine and Other Poems
After the May time, and after the June time
Rare with blossoms and perfumes sweet,
Cometh the round world’s royal noon time, … Continue Reading …

A Reminiscence # Maurine and Other Poems
I saw the wild honey‑bee kissing a rose
A wee one, that grows
Down low on the bush, where her sisters above … Continue Reading …

Respite # Maurine and Other Poems
The mighty conflict, which we call existence,
Doth wear upon the body and the soul.
Our vital forces wasted in resistance, … Continue Reading …

A Girl’s Faith # Maurine and Other Poems
Across the miles that stretch between,
Through days of gloom or glad sunlight,
There shines a face I have not seen … Continue Reading …

Two # Maurine and Other Poems
One leaned on velvet cushions like a queen—
To see him pass, the hero of an hour,
Whom men called great. She bowed with languid mien, … Continue Reading …

Slipping Away # Maurine and Other Poems
Slipping away—slipping away!
Out of our brief year slips the May;
And Winter lingers, and Summer flies; … Continue Reading …

Is It Done? # Maurine and Other Poems
It is done! in the fire’s fitful flashes,
The last line has withered and curled.
In a tiny white heap of dead ashes … Continue Reading …

A Leaf # Maurine and Other Poems
Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve,
That you were married, or soon to be.
I have not thought of you, I believe, … Continue Reading …

Æsthetic # Maurine and Other Poems
In a garb that was guiltless of colors
She stood, with a dull, listless air—
A creature of dumps and of dolors, … Continue Reading …

Poems Of The Week # Maurine and Other Poems
– Sunday # Maurine and Other Poems
Lie still and rest, in that serene repose
That on this holy morning comes to those … Continue Reading …
– Monday # Maurine and Other Poems
Awake! arise! Cast off thy drowsy dreams!
Red in the East, behold the Morning gleams. … Continue Reading …
– Tuesday # Maurine and Other Poems
Another morning’s banners are unfurled—
Another day looks smiling on the world. … Continue Reading …
– Wednesday # Maurine and Other Poems
Half‑way unto the end—the week’s high noon.
The morning hours do speed away so soon! … Continue Reading …
– Thursday # Maurine and Other Poems
So well the week has sped, hast thou a friend
Go spend an hour in converse. It will lend … Continue Reading …
– Friday # Maurine and Other Poems
From feasts abstain; be temperate, and pray;
Fast if thou wilt; and yet, throughout the day, … Continue Reading …
– Saturday # Maurine and Other Poems
Now with the almost finished task make haste;
So near the night thou hast no time to waste. … Continue Reading …

Ghosts # Maurine and Other Poems
There are ghosts in the room.
As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there
They come out of the gloom, … Continue Reading …

Fleeing Away # Maurine and Other Poems
My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar,
Higher and higher on soul‑lent wings;
But ever and often, and more and more … Continue Reading …

All Mad # Maurine and Other Poems
“He is mad as a hare, poor fellow,
And should be in chains,” you say.
I haven’t a doubt of your statement, … Continue Reading …

Hidden Gems # Maurine and Other Poems
We know not what lies in us, till we seek;
Men dive for pearls—they are not found on shore,
The hillsides most unpromising and bleak … Continue Reading …

By‑And‑By # Maurine and Other Poems
“By‑and‑by,” the maiden sighed—”by‑and‑by
He will claim me for his bride,
Hope is strong and time is fleet; … Continue Reading …

Over The May Hill # Maurine and Other Poems
All through the night time, and all through the day time,
Dreading the morning and dreading the night,
Nearer and nearer we drift to the May time … Continue Reading …

A Song # Maurine and Other Poems
Is any one sad in the world, I wonder?
Does any one weep on a day like this,
With the sun above, and the green earth under? … Continue Reading …

Foes # Maurine and Other Poems
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear
As valued friends. He cannot know
The zest of life who runneth here … Continue Reading …

Friendship # Maurine and Other Poems
Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving
Thy strong regard for me,
Make me no vows. Lip‑service is not loving; … Continue Reading …

All Roads that Lead to God are Good # Maurine and Other Poems
All roads that lead to God are good.
What matters it, your faith, or mine?
Both centre at the goal divine … Continue Reading …

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