Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poems of Cheer

Worth while # of Cheer
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile … Continue Reading …

The House of Life # of Cheer
All wondering, and eager-eyed, within her portico
I made my plea to Hostess Life, one morning long ago. … Continue Reading …

A Song of Life # of Cheer
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 …

Prayer # of Cheer
I do not undertake to say
That literal answers come from Heaven,
But I know this—that when I pray … Continue Reading …

In the Long Run # of Cheer
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 …

As you go through Life # of Cheer
Don’t look for the flaws as you go through life;
And even when you find them,
It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, … Continue Reading …

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

Unrest # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 …

Inevitable # of Cheer
In that delicious state of semi-waking,
When baby, sitting with his nurse at play, … Continue Reading …

The Ocean of Song # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 …

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

I Dream # of Cheer
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 Sonnet # of Cheer
Alone it stands in Poesy’s fair land,
A temple by the muses set apart;
A perfect structure of consummate art, … Continue Reading …

The Past # of Cheer
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 …

A Dream # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
Falling upon the frozen world last
I heard the slow beat of the Winter rain—
Poor foolish drops, down-dripping all in vain; … Continue Reading …

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

Burdened # of Cheer
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 …

Let them go # of Cheer
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 …

Five Kisses # of Cheer
Love breathed a secret to her listening heart,
And said “Be silent.” Though she guarded it,
And dwelt as one within a world apart, … Continue Reading …

Retrospection # of Cheer
I look down the lengthening distance
Far back to youth’s valley of hope.
How strange seemed the ways of existence, … Continue Reading …

Helena # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
Nothing remains of unrecorded ages
That lie in the silent cemetery time;
Their wisdom may have shamed our wisest sages, … Continue Reading …

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

What Gain? # of Cheer
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 …

To the West # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
I set out for the Land of Content,
By the gay crowded pleasure-highway,
With laughter, and jesting, I went … Continue Reading …

Warning # of Cheer
High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning,
Albeit the sun shone bright; … Continue Reading …

After the Battles are over # of Cheer
After the battles are over,
And the war drums cease to beat,
And no more is heard on the hillside … Continue Reading …

And they are dumb # of Cheer
I have been across the bridges of the years.
Wet with tears
Were the ties on which I trod, going back … Continue Reading …

Night # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 …

Into Space # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 …

The Punished # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 …

The Year # of Cheer
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times? … Continue Reading …

The Unattained # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
How happy they are, in all seeming,
How gay, or how smilingly proud,
How brightly their faces are beaming, … Continue Reading …

Life and I # of Cheer
Life and I are lovers, straying
Arm in arm along:
Often like two children Maying, … Continue Reading …

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

Snowed Under # of Cheer
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 …

Leudemanns-on-the-river # of Cheer
Toward even, when the day leans down
To kiss the upturned face of night,
Out just beyond the loud-voiced town … Continue Reading …

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

No Spring # of Cheer
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 …

Midsummer # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 …

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

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

Is it done? # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
In a garb that was guiltless of colours
She stood, with a dull, listless air—
A creature of dumps and of dolours, … Continue Reading …

Poems of the Week # of Cheer
Lie still and rest, in that serene repose
That on this holy morning comes to those
Who have been burdened with the cares which make … Continue Reading …

Ghosts # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
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 # of Cheer
“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 # of Cheer
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-bye # of Cheer
“By-and-bye,” the maiden sighed—“by-and-bye
He will claim me for his bride,
Hope is strong and time is fleet; … Continue Reading …

Over the May Hill # of Cheer
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 …

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

Friendship # of Cheer
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 …

Two sat down # of Cheer
Two sat down in the morning time,
One to sing and one to spin.
All men listened the song sublime— … Continue Reading …

Bound and free # of Cheer
Come to me, Love! Come on the wings of the wind!
Fly as the ring-dove would fly to his mate!
Leave all your cares and your sorrows behind! … Continue Reading …

Aquileia # of Cheer
“The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes,”
Chrispinus cried, “or death attends our hopes.”
Then panic reigned, and many a mournful sound … Continue Reading …

Wishes for a little girl # of Cheer
What would I ask the kindly fates to give
To crown her life, if I could have my way?
My strongest wishes would be negative, … Continue Reading …

Romney # of Cheer
Nay, Romney, nay—I will not hear you say
Those words again: “I love you, love you sweet!”
You are profane—blasphemous. I repeat, … Continue Reading …

My Home # of Cheer
This is the place that I love the best,
A little brown house like a ground-bird’s nest,
Hid among grasses, and vines, and trees, … Continue Reading …

To marry or not to marry? # of Cheer
Mother says, “Be in no hurry,
Marriage oft means care and worry.” … Continue Reading …

An Afternoon # of Cheer
I am stirred by the dream of an afternoon
Of a perfect day—though it was not June;
The lilt of winds, and the droning tune … Continue Reading …

River and Sea # of Cheer
We stood by the river that swept
In its glory and grandeur away;
But never a pulse o’ me leapt, … Continue Reading …

What happens? # of Cheer
When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh
Of intricate and interlacèd veins
Shoot swift delights that border on keen pains: … Continue Reading …

Possession # of Cheer
That which we had we still possess,
Though leaves may drop and stars may fall;
No circumstance can make it less, … Continue Reading …

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