Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poems of Passion

Love’s Language # of Passion
How does Love speak?
In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by … Continue Reading …

Impatience # of Passion
How can I wait until you come to me?
The once fleet mornings linger by the way,
Their sunny smiles touched with malicious glee … Continue Reading …

Communism # of Passion
When my blood flows calm as a purling river,
When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway,
It is then that I vow we must part forever, … Continue Reading …

The Common Lot # of Passion
It is a common fate—a woman’s lot—
To waste on one the riches of her soul,
Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot … Continue Reading …

Individuality # of Passion
O yes, I love you, and with all my heart;
Just as a weaker woman loves her own,
Better than I love my beloved art, … Continue Reading …

Friendship After Love # of Passion
After the fierce midsummer all ablaze
Has burned itself to ashes, and expires
In the intensity of its own fires, … Continue Reading …

Queries # of Passion
Well, how has it been with you since we met
That last strange time of a hundred times?
When we met to swear that we could forget— … Continue Reading …

Upon The Sand # of Passion
All love that has not friendship for its base
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Though brave its walls as any in the land, … Continue Reading …

Reunited # of Passion
Let us begin, dear love, where we left off;
Tie up the broken threads of that old dream,
And go on happy as before, and seem … Continue Reading …

What Shall We Do? # of Passion
Here now forevermore our lives must part.
My path leads there, and yours another way.
What shall we do with this fond love, dear heart? … Continue Reading …

The Beautiful Blue Danube # of Passion
They drift down the hall together;
He smiles in her lifted eyes;
Like waves of that mighty river, … Continue Reading …

Answered # of Passion
Good-bye—yes, I am going.
Sudden? Well, you are right;
But a startling truth came home to me … Continue Reading …

Through The Valley # of Passion
As I came through the Valley of Despair,
As I came through the valley, on my sight,
More awful than the darkness of the night, … Continue Reading …

But One # of Passion
The year has but one June, dear friend;
The year has but one June;
And when that perfect month doth end, … Continue Reading …

Guilo # of Passion
Yes, yes! I love thee, Guilo; thee alone.
Why dost thou sigh, and wear that face of sorrow?
The sunshine is to-day’s, although it shone … Continue Reading …

The Duet # of Passion
I was smoking a cigarette;
Maud, my wife, and the tenor, McKey,
Were singing together a blithe duet, … Continue Reading …

Little Queen # of Passion
Do you remember the name I wore—
The old pet-name of Little Queen—
In the dear, dead days that are no more, … Continue Reading …

Wherefore? # of Passion
Wherefore in dreams are sorrows borne anew,
A healed wound opened, or the past revived?
Last night in my deep sleep I dreamed of you; … Continue Reading …

Delilah # of Passion
In the midnight of darkness and terror,
When I would grope nearer to God,
With my back to a record of error … Continue Reading …

Love Song # of Passion
Once in the world’s first prime,
When nothing lived or stirred—
Nothing but new-born Time, … Continue Reading …

Time And Love # of Passion
Time flies. The swift hours hurry by
And speed us on to untried ways;
New seasons ripen, perish, die, … Continue Reading …

Change # of Passion
Changed? Yes, I will confess it—I have changed.
I do not love in the old fond way.
I am your friend still—time has not estranged … Continue Reading …

Desolation # of Passion
I think that the bitterest sorrow or pain
Of love unrequited, or cold death’s woe,
Is sweet compared to that hour when we know … Continue Reading …

Isaura # of Passion
Dost thou not tire, Isaura, of this play?
“What play?” Why, this old play of winning hearts!
Nay, now, lift not thine eyes in that feigned way: … Continue Reading …

The Coquette # of Passion
Alone she sat with her accusing heart,
That, like a restless comrade frightened sleep,
And every thought that found her, left a dart … Continue Reading …

New And Old # of Passion
I and new love, in all its living bloom,
Sat vis-a-vis, while tender twilight hours
Went softly by us, treading as on flowers. … Continue Reading …

Not Quite The Same # of Passion
Not quite the same the spring-time seems to me,
Since that sad season when in separate ways
Our paths diverged. There are no more such days … Continue Reading …

From The Grave # of Passion
When the first sere leaves of the year were falling,
I heard, with a heart that was strangely thrilled,
Out of the grave of a dead Past calling, … Continue Reading …

A Waltz-Quadrille # of Passion
The band was playing a waltz-quadrille,
I felt as light as a wind-blown feather,
As we floated away, at the caller’s will, … Continue Reading …

Beppo # of Passion
Why art thou sad, my Beppo? But last eve,
Here at my feet, thy dear head on my breast,
I heard thee say thy heart would no more grieve … Continue Reading …

Tired # of Passion
I am tired to-night, and something,
The wind maybe, or the rain,
Or the cry of a bird in the copse outside, … Continue Reading …

The Speech Of Silence # of Passion
The solemn Sea of Silence lies between us;
I know thou livest, and thou lovest me,
And yet I wish some white ship would come sailing … Continue Reading …

Conversion # of Passion
I have lived this life as the skeptic lives it;
I have said the sweetness was less than the gall;
Praising, nor cursing, the Hand that gives it, … Continue Reading …

Love’s Coming # of Passion
She had looked for his coming as warriors come,
With the clash of arms and the bugle’s call:
But he came instead with a stealthy tread, … Continue Reading …

Old And New # of Passion
Long have the poets vaunted, in their lays,
Old times, old loves, old friendship, and old wine.
Why should the old monopolize all praise? … Continue Reading …

Perfectness # of Passion
All perfect things are saddening in effect.
The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes,
The matchless tinting on the royal rose … Continue Reading …

Attraction # of Passion
The meadow and the mountain with desire
Gazed on each other, till a fierce unrest
Surged ‘neath the meadow’s seemingly calm breast, … Continue Reading …

Gracia # of Passion
Nay, nay, Antonio! nay, thou shalt not blame her,
My Gracia, who hath so deserted me.
Thou art my friend, but if thou dost defame her … Continue Reading …

Ad Finem # of Passion
On the white throat of the’ useless passion
That scorched my soul with its burning breath
I clutched my fingers in murderous fashion, … Continue Reading …

Bleak Weather # of Passion
Dear Love, where the red lilies blossomed and grew
The white snows are falling;
And all through the woods where I wandered with you … Continue Reading …

An Answer # of Passion
If all the year was summer time,
And all the aim of life
Was just to lilt on like a rhyme, … Continue Reading …

You Will Forget Me # of Passion
You will forget me. The years are so tender,
They bind up the wounds which we think are so deep;
This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor … Continue Reading …

The Farewell Of Clarimonde # of Passion
Adieu, Romauld! But thou canst not forget me.
Although no more I haunt thy dreams at night,
Thy hungering heart forever must regret me, … Continue Reading …

The Trio # of Passion
We love but once. The great gold orb of light
From dawn to even-tide doth cast his ray;
But the full splendor of his perfect might … Continue Reading …

Miscellaneous Poems.

The Lost Garden # of Passion
There was a fair green garden sloping
From the south-east side of the mountain-ledge;
And the earliest tint of the dawn came groping … Continue Reading …

Art And Heart # of Passion
Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover,
It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over. … Continue Reading …

Mockery # of Passion
Why do we grudge our sweets so to the living
Who, God knows, find at best too much of gall,
And then with generous, open hands kneel, giving … Continue Reading …

As By Fire # of Passion
Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearning
For spiritual perfection here below,
This vigorous frame, with healthful fervor burning, … Continue Reading …

If I Should Die # of Passion
If I should die, how kind you all would grow!
In that strange hour I would not have one foe.
There are no words too beautiful to say … Continue Reading …

Mésalliance # of Passion
I am troubled to-night with a curious pain;
It is not of the flesh, it is not of the brain,
Nor yet of a heart that is breaking: … Continue Reading …

Response # of Passion
I said this morning, as I leaned and threw
My shutters open to the Spring’s surprise,
“Tell me, O Earth, how is it that in you … Continue Reading …

Drouth # of Passion
Why do we pity those who weep? The pain
That finds a ready outlet in the flow
Of salt and bitter tears is blessed woe, … Continue Reading …

The Creed # of Passion
Whoever was begotten by pure love,
And came desired and welcome into life,
Is of immaculate conception. He … Continue Reading …

Progress # of Passion
Let there be many windows to your soul,
That all the glory of the universe
May beautify it. Not the narrow pane … Continue Reading …

My Friend # of Passion
When first I looked upon the face of Pain
I shrank repelled, as one shrinks from a foe
Who stands with dagger poised, as for a blow. … Continue Reading …

Creation # of Passion
The impulse of all love is to create.
God was so full of love, in his embrace
He clasped the empty nothingness of space, … Continue Reading …

Red Carnations # of Passion
One time in Arcadie’s fair bowers
There met a bright immortal band,
To choose their emblems from the flowers … Continue Reading …

Life Is Too Short # of Passion
Life is too short for any vain regretting;
Let dead delight bury its dead, I say,
And let us go upon our way forgetting … Continue Reading …

A Sculptor # of Passion
As the ambitious sculptor, tireless, lifts
Chisel and hammer to the block at hand,
Before my half-formed character I stand … Continue Reading …

Beyond # of Passion
It seemeth such a little way to me
Across to that strange country—the Beyond;
And yet, not strange, for it has grown to be … Continue Reading …

The Saddest Hour # of Passion
The saddest hour of anguish and of loss
Is not that season of supreme despair
When we can find no least light anywhere … Continue Reading …

Show Me The Way # of Passion
Show me the way that leads to the true life.
I do not care what tempests may assail me,
I shall be given courage for the strife; … Continue Reading …

My Heritage # of Passion
I into life so full of love was sent
That all the shadows which fall on the way
Of every human being could not stay, … Continue Reading …

Resolve # of Passion
Build on resolve, and not upon regret,
The structure of thy future. Do not grope
Among the shadows of old sins, but let … Continue Reading …

At Eleusis # of Passion
I, at Eleusis, saw the finest sight,
When early morning’s banners were unfurled.
From high Olympus, gazing on the world, … Continue Reading …

Courage # of Passion
There is a courage, a majestic thing
That springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown,
Minerva-like, and dares all dangers known, … Continue Reading …

Solitude # of Passion
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, … Continue Reading …

The Year Outgrows The Spring # of Passion
The year outgrows the spring it thought so sweet,
And clasps the summer with a new delight,
Yet wearied, leaves her languors and her heat … Continue Reading …

The Beautiful Land Of Nod # of Passion
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
Your head like the golden-rod,
And we will go sailing away from here … Continue Reading …

The Tiger # of Passion
In the still jungle of the senses lay
A tiger soundly sleeping, till one day
A bold young hunter chanced to come that way. … Continue Reading …

Only A Simple Rhyme # of Passion
Only a simple rhyme of love and sorrow,
Where “blisses” rhymed with “kisses,” “heart,” with “dart:”
Yet, reading it, new strength I seemed to borrow, … Continue Reading …

I Will Be Worthy Of It # of Passion
I may not reach the heights I seek,
My untried strength may fail me,
Or, half-way up the mountain peak, … Continue Reading …

Sonnet # of Passion
Methinks ofttimes my heart is like some bee
That goes forth through the summer day and sings.
And gathers honey from all growing things … Continue Reading …

Regret # of Passion
There is a haunting phantom called Regret,
A shadowy creature robed somewhat like Woe,
But fairer in the face, whom all men know … Continue Reading …

Let Me Lean Hard # of Passion
Let me lean hard upon the Eternal Breast:
In all earth’s devious ways I sought for rest
And found it not. I will be strong, said I, … Continue Reading …

Penalty # of Passion
Because of the fullness of what I had
All that I have seems void and vain.
If I had not been happy I were not sad; … Continue Reading …

Sunset # of Passion
I saw the day lean o’er the world’s sharp edge
And peer into night’s chasm, dark and damp;
High in his hand he held a blazing lamp, … Continue Reading …

The Wheel Of The Breast # of Passion
Through rivers of veins on the nameless quest
The tide of my life goes hurriedly sweeping,
Till it reaches that curious wheel o’ the breast, … Continue Reading …

A Meeting # of Passion
Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;
A song I sang, full many a year ago,
Smiled up at me, as in a busy street … Continue Reading …

Earnestness # of Passion
The hurry of the times affects us so
In this swift rushing hour, we crowd and press
And thrust each other backward as we go, … Continue Reading …

A Picture # of Passion
I strolled last eve across the lonely down;
One solitary picture struck my eye:
A distant ploughboy stood against the sky— … Continue Reading …

Twin-Born # of Passion
He who possesses virtue at its best,
Or greatness in the true sense of the word,
Has one day started even with that herd … Continue Reading …

Floods # of Passion
In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleep
I wake to hear outside my window-pane
The uncurbed fury of the wild spring rain, … Continue Reading …

A Fable # of Passion
Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl,
A Hawk, a Canary, an old Marsh-Fowl,
One day all meet together … Continue Reading …

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