Poems of Experience by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poems of Experience

The Empty Bowl # of Experience
I held the golden vessel of my soul
And prayed that God would fill it from on high.
Day after day the importuning cry … Continue Reading …

Keep Going # of Experience
Is the goal distant, and troubled the road,
And the way long?
And heavy your load? … Continue Reading …

A Prayer # of Experience
Just as I shape the purport of my thought,
Lord of the Universe, shape Thou my lot.
Let each ill thought that in my heart may be, … Continue Reading …

The London ‘Bobby’ # of Experience
Here in my cosy corner,
Before a blazing log,
I’m thinking of cold London … Continue Reading …

Read at the Benefit of Clara Morris # of Experience
The Radiant Rulers of Mystic Regions
Where souls of artists are fitted for birth
Gathered together their lovely legions … Continue Reading …

Two Ghosts # of Experience
Two dead men boarded a spectral ship
In the astral Port of Space;
On that ghost-filled barque, they met in the dark, … Continue Reading …

Woman # of Experience
Strange are the ways that her feet have trod
Since first she was set in the path of duty,
Finished and fair by the hand of God, … Continue Reading …

Battle Hymn of the Women # of Experience
They are waking, they are waking,
In the east, and in the west;
They are throwing wide their windows to the sun; … Continue Reading …

Memories # of Experience
I am thinking of the Springtime
On the farm out in the West,
When my world held nothing for me that I wanted, … Continue Reading …

See? # of Experience
If one proves weak who you fancied strong,
Or false who you fancied true,
Just ease the smart of your wounded heart … Continue Reading …

The Purpose # of Experience
Over and over the task was set,
Over and over I slighted the work,
But ever and alway I knew that yet … Continue Reading …

The White Man # of Experience
Wherever the white man’s feet have trod
(Oh far does the white man stray)
A bold road rifles the virginal sod, … Continue Reading …

A Moorish Maid # of Experience
Above her veil a shrouded Moorish maid
Showed melting eyes, as limpid as a lake;
A brow untouched by care; a band of jetty hair, … Continue Reading …

Lincoln # of Experience
When God created this good world
A few stupendous peaks were hurled
From His strong hand, and they remain … Continue Reading …

I know not # of Experience
Death! I know not what room you are abiding in,
But I will go my way,
Rejoicing day by day, … Continue Reading …

Interlude # of Experience
The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer;
The headstones thicken along the way,
And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger, … Continue Reading …

Resurrection # of Experience
Pausing a moment ere the day was done,
While yet the earth was scintillant with light,
I backward glanced. From valley, plain, and height, … Continue Reading …

The Voices of the City # of Experience
The voices of the city—merged and swelled
Into a mighty dissonance of sound,
And from the medley rose these broken strains … Continue Reading …

If Christ came Questioning # of Experience
If Christ came questioning His world to-day,
(If Christ came questioning,)
‘What hast thou done to glorify thy God, … Continue Reading …

England, Awake! # of Experience
A beautiful great lady, past her prime,
Behold her dreaming in her easy chair;
Gray robed, and veiled; in laces old and rare, … Continue Reading …

Be not attached # of Experience
‘Be not attached.’ So runs the great command
For those who seek to ‘know’ and ‘understand.’
Who sounds the waters of the deeper sea … Continue Reading …

An Episode # of Experience
Along the narrow Moorish street
A blue-eyed soldier strode.
(Ah, well-a-day) … Continue Reading …

The Voice of the Voiceless # of Experience
I am the voice of the voiceless;
Through me the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear … Continue Reading …

Time’s Defeat # of Experience
Time has made conquest of so many things
That once were mine. Swift-footed, eager youth
That ran to meet the years; bold brigand health, … Continue Reading …

The Hymn of the Republic # of Experience
I have listened to the sighing of the burdened and the bound,
I have heard it change to crying, with a menace in the sound;
I have seen the money-getters pass unheeding on the way, … Continue Reading …

The Radiant Christ # of Experience
Arise, O master artist of the age,
And paint the picture which at once shall be
Immortal art and bless’d prophecy. … Continue Reading …

At Bay # of Experience
Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast.
Tell me there are no memories of your past
That mar this love of ours, so great, so vast. … Continue Reading …

The Birth of Jealousy # of Experience
With brooding mien and sultry eyes,
Outside the gates of Paradise
Eve sat, and fed the faggot flame … Continue Reading …

Summer’s Farewell # of Experience
All in the time when Earth did most deplore
The cold, ungracious aspect of young May,
Sweet Summer came, and bade him smile once more; … Continue Reading …

The Goal # of Experience
All roads that lead to God are good;
What matters it, your faith, or mine;
Both centre at the goal divine … Continue Reading …

Christ Crucified # of Experience
Now ere I slept, my prayer had been that I might see my way
To do the will of Christ, our Lord and Master, day by day;
And with this prayer upon my lips, I knew not that I dreamed, … Continue Reading …

The Trip to Mars # of Experience
Oh! by and by we shall hear the cry,
‘This is the way to Mars.’
Come take a trip, on the morning Ship; … Continue Reading …

Fiction and Fact # of Experience
In books I read, how men have lived and died,
With hopeless love deep in their bosoms hidden.
While she for whom they long in secret sighed, … Continue Reading …

Progress # of Experience
There is no progress in the world of bees,
However wise and wonderful they are.
Their wisdom makes not increase. Lies the bar, … Continue Reading …

How the White Rose Came # of Experience
The roses all were pink and red,
Before the Bumble Bee,
A lover bold, with cloak of gold, … Continue Reading …

I look to Science # of Experience
I look to Science for the cure of Crime;
To patient righting of a thousand wrongs;
To final healing of a thousand ills. … Continue Reading …

Appreciation # of Experience
They prize not most the opulence of June
Who from the year’s beginning to its close
Dwell, where unfading verdure tireless grows, … Continue Reading …

The Awakening # of Experience
I love the tropics, where sun and rain
Go forth together, a joyous train,
To hold up the green, gay side of the world, … Continue Reading …

Most blest is he # of Experience
Most blest is he who in the morning time
Sets forth upon his journey with no staff
Shaped by another for his use. Who sees … Continue Reading …

Nirvana # of Experience
A drop of water risen from the ocean
Forgot its cause, and spake with deep emotion
Unto a passing breeze. ‘How desolate … Continue Reading …

Life # of Experience
Oh! I feel the growing glory
Of our life upon this sphere,
Of the life that like a river … Continue Reading …

Two men # of Experience
So much one thought about the life beyond
He did not drain the waters of his pond;
And when death laid his children ’neath the sod … Continue Reading …

Only be still # of Experience
‘Only be still, and in the silence grow,’
If thou art seeking what the gods bestow.
This is the simple, safe, and certain way … Continue Reading …

Pardoned Out # of Experience
I’m pardoned out. Again the stars
Shine on me with their myriad eyes.
So long I’ve peered ’twixt iron bars, … Continue Reading …

The Tides # of Experience
Oh, vain is the stern protesting
Of winds, when the tide runs high;
And vainly the deep-sea waters … Continue Reading …

Progression # of Experience
To each progressive soul there comes a day
When all things that have pleased and satisfied
Grow flavourless, the springs of joy seem dried. … Continue Reading …

Acquaintance # of Experience
Not we who daily walk the city’s street
Not those who have been cradled in its heart,
Best understand its architectural art … Continue Reading …

Attainment # of Experience
There is no summit you may not attain,
No purpose which you may not yet achieve,
If you will wait serenely and believe. … Continue Reading …

The tower-room # of Experience
There is a room serene and fair,
All palpitant with light and air;
Free from the dust, world’s noise and fuss— … Continue Reading …

Father # of Experience
He never made a fortune, or a noise
In the world where men are seeking after fame;
But he had a healthy brood of girls and boys … Continue Reading …

The new Hawaiian girl # of Experience
Kamehameha First, of the Hawaiian Islands, conquered his foes in a great battle, driving them over the high mountain peak known as Pali—one of the famous scenic views of the world, … Continue Reading …

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