Poems of life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poems of life

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

A Song Of Life # of life
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 …

Conversion # of life
When this world’s pleasures for my soul sufficed,
Ere my heart’s plummet sounded depths of pain,
I called on Reason to control my brain, … Continue Reading …

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

Limitless # of life
There is nothing, I hold, in the way of work
That a human being may not achieve
If he does not falter, or shrink or shirk, … Continue Reading …

Two Sunsets # of life
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 life
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 life
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 life
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 …

Secrets # of life
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 …

Uselessness # of life
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 life
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 life
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 …

Inevitable # of life
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 # of life
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 …

Gethsemane # of life
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 # of life
I know not wherefore, but mine eyes
See bloom, where other eyes see blight.
They find a rainbow, a sunrise, … Continue Reading …

Advice # of life
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 # of life
Over the banisters bends a face,
Daringly sweet and beguiling.
Somebody stands in careless grace … Continue Reading …

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

The Farewell # of life
‘Tis not the untried soldier new to danger
Who fears to enter into active strife.
Amidst the roll of drums, the cannon’s rattle, … Continue Reading …

The Past # of life
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 …

It Might Have Been # of life
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 …

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

Nothing New # of life
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 …

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

Finis # of life
An idle rhyme of the summer time,
Sweet, and solemn, and tender;
Fair with the haze of the moon’s pale rays, … Continue Reading …

Applause # of life
I hold it one of the sad certain laws
Which makes our failures sometime seem more kind
Than that success which brings sure loss behind– … Continue Reading …

Life # of life
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 …

The Story # of life
They met each other in the glade–
She lifted up her eyes;
Alack the day! Alack the maid! … Continue Reading …

Let Them Go # of life
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 # of life
INTO the gloom of the deep, dark night,
With panting breath and a startled scream;
Swift as a bird in sudden flight, … Continue Reading …

In The Long Run # of life
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 …

A Song # of life
IS anyone sad in the world, I wonder?
Does anyone weep on a day like this
With the sun above, and the green earth under? … Continue Reading …

The Two Glasses # of life
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 …

What We Need # of life
What does our country need? No armies standing
With sabres gleaming ready for the fight;
Not increased navies, skilful and commanding, … Continue Reading …

Is It Done? # of life
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 …

Burdened # of life
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 …

To Marry Or Not To Marry? # of life
Mother says, “Be in no hurry,
Marriage oft means care and worry.” … Continue Reading …

A March Snow # of life
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 …

Comrades # of life
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 …

In The Crowd # of life
HOW happy they are, in all seeming,
How gay, or how smilingly proud,
How brightly their faces are beaming, … Continue Reading …

Into Space # of life
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 …

Snowed Under # of life
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 …

Noblesse Oblige # of life
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 …

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

Through Dim Eyes # of life
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 …

True Culture # of life
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 …

What Gain? # of life
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 …

The Christian’s New Year Prayer # of life
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 …

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

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