Poems of Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Sweet Danger # of Love
The danger of war, with its havoc of life,
The danger of ocean, when storms are rife,
The danger of jungles, where wild beasts hide, … Continue Reading …

A Fatal Impress # of Love
A little leaf just in the forest’s edge,
All summer long, had listened to the wooing
Of amorous birds that flew across the hedge, … Continue Reading …

Love # of Love
The day is drawing near, my dear,
When you and I must sever;
Yet whether near or far we are, … Continue Reading …

I Will Be True # of Love
I will be true. Mad stars forsake their courses,
And, led by reckless meteors, turn away
From paths appointed by Eternal Forces. … Continue Reading …

The Farewell # of Love
‘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 Kingdom Of Love # of Love
In the dawn of the day, when the sea and the earth
Reflected the sunrise above,
I set forth, with a heart full of courage and mirth, … Continue Reading …

Love Will Wane # of Love
When your love begins to wane,
Spare me from the cruel pain
Of all speech that tells me so– … Continue Reading …

Three-Fold # of Love
Somewhere I’ve read a thoughtful mind’s reflection:
“All perfect things are three-fold”; and I know
Our love has this rare symbol of perfection; … Continue Reading …

A Maiden’s Secret # of Love
I have written this day down in my heart
As the sweetest day in the season;
From all of the others I’ve set it apart– … Continue Reading …

Lines From “Maurine” # of Love
It was a way of Helen’s not to sing
The songs that other people sang; she took
Sometimes an extract from an olden book– … Continue Reading …

Art And Love # of Love
For many long uninterrupted years
She was the friend and confidant of Art;
They walked together, heart communed with heart … Continue Reading …

One Woman’s History # of Love
“The maiden free, the maiden wed.
Can never, never be the same,
A new life springs from out the dead … Continue Reading …

Why The Spring Is Late # of Love
The spring time is deaf to our pleading,
The meadows are brown as can be.
The hilltops are bleak and unlovely, … Continue Reading …

River And Sea # of Love
Under the light of the silver moon,
We two sat, when our hearts were young;
The night was warm with the breath of June, … Continue Reading …

Love # of Love
In all earth’s music, grand, or sweet, or strong,
To hear one name, as if ’twere set in song. … Continue Reading …

In The Garden # of Love
One moment alone in the garden,
Under the August skies;
The moon had gone but the stars shone on,– … Continue Reading …

When You Go Away # of Love
When you go away, my friend,
When we say our last good-bye,
Then the summer time will end, … Continue Reading …

Lines On H–‘S Foot # of Love
It may be you’ve seen her eyes,
Dark and deep like midnight skies;
You mayhap have seen them flash … Continue Reading …

A Baby In The House # of Love
I knew that a baby was hid in that house,
Though I saw no cradle, and heard no cry,
But the husband went tip-toeing ’round like a mouse, … Continue Reading …

Resigned # of Love
My babe was moaning in its sleep,
I leaned and kissed it where it lay,
My pain was such I could not weep, … Continue Reading …

In Faith # of Love
When the soft sweet wind o’ the south went by,
I dwelt in the light of a dark brown eye;
And out where the robin sang his song, … Continue Reading …

I Told You # of Love
I told you the winter would go, love,
I told you the winter would go.
That he’d flee in shame when the south wind came, … Continue Reading …

Lost # of Love
You left me with the autumn time;
When winter stripped the forest bare,
Then dressed it in his spotless rime; … Continue Reading …

Only A Sad Mistake # of Love
Only a blunder–a sad mistake;
All my own fault and mine alone.
The saddest error a heart can make; … Continue Reading …

Song Of The Wheelman # of Love
Over my desk in a dark office bending,
Dim seems the sunlight and dull seems the day;
But when the afternoon draws toward an ending, … Continue Reading …

The Old Moon In The New Moon’s Arms # of Love
The beautiful and slender young New Moon,
In trailing robes of pink and palest blue,
Swept close to Venus, and breathed low: “A boon … Continue Reading …

The Soul’s Farewell To The Body # of Love
So we must part forever. And although
I long have beat my wings and cried to go
Free from your narrow limits and control, … Continue Reading …

Long Ago # of Love
I loved a maiden, long ago,
She held within her hand my fate;
And in the ruddy sunset glow … Continue Reading …

Take My Hand # of Love
Strengthen me for every contest,
Let my prayers be not in vain,
I would bless Thee, in my sorrow; … Continue Reading …

The Wild Blue-Bells # of Love
Came a bouquet from the city,
Fragrant, rich and debonair–
Sweet carnation and geranium, … Continue Reading …

A Waif # of Love
My soul is like a poor caged bird to-night,
Beating its wings against the prison bars,
Longing to reach the outer world of light, … Continue Reading …

A Face At The Window # of Love
Once as I wandered down the street
I saw at the window a face so sweet;
The tiny face of a baby girl … Continue Reading …

Searching # of Love
These quiet Autumn days,
My soul, like Noah’s dove, on airy wings
Goes out and searches for the hidden things … Continue Reading …

Our Blessings # of Love
Sitting to-day in the sunshine,
That touched me with fingers of love,
I thought of the manifold blessings … Continue Reading …

Going Away # of Love
Walking to-day on the Common,
I heard a stranger say
To a friend who was standing near him, … Continue Reading …

Be Not Weary # of Love
Sometimes, when I am toil-worn and aweary,
All tired out, with working long, and well,
And earth is dark, and skies above are dreary, … Continue Reading …

Growing Old # of Love
Little by little the year grows old,
The red leaves drop from the maple boughs;
The sun grows dim, and the winds blow cold, … Continue Reading …

The Summons # of Love
Some day, when the golden glory
Of June is over the earth,
And the birds are singing together … Continue Reading …

Conversion # of Love
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 …

One Woman’s Plea # of Love
Now God be with the men who stand
In Legislative halls, to-day.
Those chosen princes of our land– … Continue Reading …

If # of Love
If I were sent to represent
A portion of a nation
I would not chat, on this and that, … Continue Reading …

A Plea For Fame # of Love
Let those slander fame who will–
Call her cheat and blame her ways.
It may all be true; and still … Continue Reading …

A Mother’s Wail # of Love
The sweet young spring walks over the earth,
It flushes and glows on moor and lea;
The birds are singing in careless mirth– … Continue Reading …

The Same Old Strain # of Love
Each day that I live I am persuaded anew,
A maxim I long have believed in, is true.
Each day I grow firmer in this, my belief, … Continue Reading …

Limitless # of Love
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 …

Denied # of Love
The winds came out of the west one day,
And hurried the clouds before them;
And drove the shadows and mists away, … Continue Reading …

Warned # of Love
They stood at the garden gate.
By the lifting of a lid
She might have read her fate … Continue Reading …

Rich And Poor # of Love
By the castle-gate my lady stands,
Viewing broad acres and spreading lands. … Continue Reading …

Over The Alley # of Love
Here in my office I sit and write
Hour on hour, and day on day,
With no one to speak to from morn till night, … Continue Reading …

At The Window # of Love
Every morning, as I walk down
From my dreary lodgings, toward the town,
I see at the window near the street, … Continue Reading …

Only A Kiss # of Love
Once, when the summer lay on the hilltops,
And the sunshine fell like a golden flame,
Out from the city’s dust and turmoil … Continue Reading …

My Ship # of Love
If all the ships I have at sea
Should come a-sailing home to me,
Ah, well! the harbour could not hold … Continue Reading …

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

Lines # of Love
Alas! my muse is getting fast;
She uses slang, ’tis very clear.
Last eve, as she was flying past, … Continue Reading …

Over The Water # of Love
Think of it, think of it over the water
Thousands of men to-day march on to death,
Think how the sun shines on fields red with slaughter– … Continue Reading …

Flowers For The Brave # of Love
Gather them out of the valley–
Bring them from moorland and hill,
And cast them in wreaths and in garlands. … Continue Reading …

The People’s Favorite # of Love
God bless the hero of my song!
Six years the chieftain of our State!
We’ve held him, in our hearts, so long, … Continue Reading …

An Army Reunion # of Love
After the battles are over,
And the war drums cease to beat,
And no more is heard on the hillside … Continue Reading …

The Campfire # of Love
When night hung low and dew fell damp,
There fell athwart the shadows
The gleaming watchfires of the camp, … Continue Reading …

Independence Ode # of Love
Columbia, fair queen in your glory!
Columbia, the pride of the earth!
We crown you with song-wreath and story; … Continue Reading …

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