Poem “Now” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poems of Pleasure

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American Literature – American Poetry – Ella Wheeler Wilcox – Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox – Poems of Pleasure
< < < New Year
Sweet Danger > > >

Now

ONE looks behind him to some vanished time
And says, “Ah, I was happy then, alack!
I did not know it was my life’s best prime—
Oh, if I could go back!”

Another looks, with eager eyes aglow,
To some glad day of joy that yet will dawn,
And sighs, “I shall be happy then, I know;
Oh, let me hurry on.”

But I—I look out on my fair To-day;
I clasp it close and kiss its radiant brow.
Here with the perfect present let me stay,
For I am happy now!

< < < New Year
Sweet Danger > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Ella Wheeler Wilcox – Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox – Poems of Pleasure

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