Poems of Reflection by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poems of reflection

Bohemia # of Reflection
Bohemia, o’er thy unatlassed borders
How many cross, with half-reluctant feet,
And unformed fears of dangers and disorders, … Continue Reading …

Penalty # of Reflection
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 …

Life # of Reflection
An infant wailing in nameless fear;
A shadow, perchance, in the quiet room,
Or the hum of an insect flying near. … Continue Reading …

Lines from “Maurine” # of Reflection
I’d rather have my verses win
A place in common peoples’ hearts,
Who, toiling through the strife and din … Continue Reading …

When # of Reflection
I dwell in the western inland,
Afar from the sounding sea,
But I seem to hear it sobbing … Continue Reading …

Only Dreams # of Reflection
A maiden sat in the sunset glow
Of the shadowy, beautiful Long Ago,
That we see through a mist of tears. … Continue Reading …

In the Night # of Reflection
In the silent midnight watches,
When the earth was wrapped in gloom,
And the grim and awful darkness … Continue Reading …

Contentment # of Reflection
If any line that I ever penned,
Or any word I have spoken,
Has comforted heart, of foe or friend– … Continue Reading …

A New Year’s Greeting to the City of the Lakes # of Reflection
I said “I will write a greeting,
To the City of the Lakes,
Write, while the city sleepeth, … Continue Reading …

Mother’s Loss # of Reflection
If I could clasp my little babe
Upon my breast to-night,
I would not mind the blowing wind … Continue Reading …

The Women # of Reflection
See the women–pallid women, of our land!
See them fainting, dying, dead, on every hand!
See them sinking ‘neath a weight … Continue Reading …

Lean Down and Lift Me Higher # of Reflection
Lean down and lift me higher, Josephine;
From the Eternal Hills hast thou not seen;
How I do strive for heights? but lacking wings, … Continue Reading …

A Tribute to Vinnie Ream # of Reflection
All hail to Vinnie Ream!
Wisconsin’s artist daughter,
Who stands to-day crowned with the fame … Continue Reading …

The Little Bird # of Reflection
The father sits in his lonely room,
Outside sings a little bird.
But the shadows are laden with death and gloom, … Continue Reading …

Vampires # of Reflection
Lo! here’s another corpse exhumed!
Another Poet disinterred!
Sensation cried, “Dig up the grave, … Continue Reading …

Dying # of Reflection
Let me lie upon your breast,
Lift me up, and let me twine
‘Round your neck my arms, and rest … Continue Reading …

The King and the Siren # of Reflection
The harsh king–Winter–sat upon the hills,
And reigned, and ruled the earth right royally.
He locked the rivers, lakes, and all the rills– … Continue Reading …

Sunshine and Shadow # of Reflection
Life has its shadows, as well as its sun;
Its lights and its shades, all twined together.
I tried to single them out, one by one, … Continue Reading …

Whatever Is–Is Best # of Reflection
I know as my life grows older,
And mine eyes have clearer sight–
That under each rank Wrong, somewhere … Continue Reading …

Transplanted # of Reflection
Where the grim old “Mount of Lamentation”
Lifts up its summit like some great dome,
I list for the voices of Inspiration … Continue Reading …

Worldly Wisdom # of Reflection
If it were in my dead Past’s power
To let my Present bask
In some lost pleasure for an hour, … Continue Reading …

New Orleans, 1885 # of Reflection
A queen of indolence and idle grace,
Robed in the remnants of a costly gown,
She turns the languor of her lovely face … Continue Reading …

The Room Beneath the Rafters # of Reflection
Sometimes when I have dropped to sleep,
Draped in a soft luxurious gloom,
Across my drowsing mind will creep … Continue Reading …

My Comrade # of Reflection
Out from my window westward
I turn full oft my face;
But the mountains rebuke the vision … Continue Reading …

At An Old Drawer # of Reflection
Before this scarf was faded,
What hours of mirth it knew;
How gaily it paraded … Continue Reading …

So Long in Coming # of Reflection
When shall I hear the thrushes sing,
And see their graceful, round throats swelling?
When shall I watch the bluebirds bring … Continue Reading …

Lay It Away # of Reflection
We will lay our summer away, my friend,
So tenderly lay it away.
It was bright and sweet to the very end, … Continue Reading …

Perished # of Reflection
I called to the summer sun,
“Come over the hills to-day!
Unlock the rivers, and tell them to run, … Continue Reading …

The Belle’s Soliloquy # of Reflection
Heigh ho! well, the season’s over!
Once again we’ve come to Lent!
Programme’s changed from balls and parties– … Continue Reading …

My Vision # of Reflection
Wherever my feet may wander
Wherever I chance to be,
There comes, with the coming of even’ time … Continue Reading …

Dream-Time # of Reflection
Throughout these mellow autumn days,
All sweet and dim, and soft with haze,
I argue with my unwise heart, … Continue Reading …

Sing to Me # of Reflection
Sing to me! something of sunlight and bloom,
I am so compassed with sorrow and gloom,
I am so sick with the world’s noise and strife,– … Continue Reading …

Summer Song # of Reflection
The meadow lark’s trill and the brown thrush’s whistle
From morning to evening fill all the sweet air,
And my heart is as light as the down of a thistle– … Continue Reading …

A Twilight Thought # of Reflection
The sweet maid, Day, has pillowed her head
On the breast of her dusky lover. Night.
The sun has made her a couch of red, … Continue Reading …

The Belle of the Season # of Reflection
Nay–do not bring the jewels–
Away with that robe of white,
I am sick of the ball room, sister– … Continue Reading …

Joy # of Reflection
My heart is like a little bird
That sits and sings for very gladness.
Sorrow is some forgotten word, … Continue Reading …

Bird of Hope # of Reflection
Soar not too high, oh bird of Hope!
Because the skies are fair;
The tempest may come on apace … Continue Reading …

A Golden Day # of Reflection
The subtle beauty of this day
Hangs o’er me like a fairy spell,
And care and grief have flown away, … Continue Reading …

Fading # of Reflection
All in the beautiful Autumn weather
One thought lingers with me and stays;
Death and winter are coming together, … Continue Reading …

All the World # of Reflection
All the world is full of babies,
Sobbing, sighing everywhere,
Looking out with eyes of terror, … Continue Reading …

Lines # of Reflection
The harvest-moon of wedded love,
Fair in the heavens sailing,
Has reached mid-height, and, clear and bright, … Continue Reading …

A Fragment # of Reflection
Your words came just when needed. Like a breeze,
Blowing and bringing from the wide salt sea
Some cooling spray, to meadow scorched with heat … Continue Reading …

The Change # of Reflection
She leaned out into the soft June weather,
With her long loose tresses the night breeze played;
Her eyes were as blue as the bells on the heather: … Continue Reading …

Old # of Reflection
They stood together at the garden gate;
They heard the night bird calling to his mate;
The sun had set, … Continue Reading …

The Musicians # of Reflection
The strings of my heart were strung by Pleasure,
And I laughed, when the music fell on my ear,
For he and Mirth played a joyful measure, … Continue Reading …

The Doomed City’s Prayer # of Reflection
I heard a low sound, like a troubled soul praying:
And the winds of the winter night brought it to me.
‘Twas the doomed city’s voice: “Oh, kind snow,” it was saying, … Continue Reading …

Daft # of Reflection
In the warm yellow smile of the morning,
She stands at the lattice pane,
And watches the strong young binders … Continue Reading …

Hung # of Reflection
Nine o’clock, and the sun shines as yellow and warm,
As though ’twere a fete day. I wish it would storm:
Wish the thunder would crash, … Continue Reading …

When I Am Dead # of Reflection
When I am dead, if some chastened one,
Seeing the “item,” or hearing it said
That my play is over and my part done, … Continue Reading …

In Memory of Miss Jenny Blanchard # of Reflection
Across the sodden field we gaze,
To woodlands, painted gold and brown;
To hills that hide in purple haze, … Continue Reading …

In Memory of J. B. # of Reflection
Brave heart, whose bed has now been made
A twelve month neath the grasses,
Checkered by sunshine and by shade, … Continue Reading …

Bird of Hope # of Reflection
Oh Bird of Hope! Soar not too high
Because the skies are fair;
The tempest may come on apace … Continue Reading …

Ghosts # of Reflection
There are ghosts in the room,
As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there
They come out of the gloom … Continue Reading …

Out of the Depths # of Reflection
Out of the midnight, rayless and starless,
Into the morning’s golden light;
Out of the clutches of wrong and ruin, … Continue Reading …

Mistakes # of Reflection
My life is full of sad mistakes,–
Today I was thinking about them,
And thinking of all that I might have been … Continue Reading …

Presumption # of Reflection
Whenever I am prone to doubt or wonder–
I check myself, and say, “That mighty One
Who made the solar system cannot blunder– … Continue Reading …

Twilight Thoughts # of Reflection
The God of the day has vanished,
The light from the hills has fled,
And the hand of an unseen artist, … Continue Reading …

Listen! # of Reflection
Whoever you are as you read this,
Whatever your trouble or grief,
I want you to know and to heed this: … Continue Reading …

Song of the Spirit # of Reflection
Too sweet and too subtle for pen or for tongue
In phrases unwritten and measures unsung,
As deep and as strange as the sounds of the sea, … Continue Reading …

The Pilgrim Fathers # of Reflection
And now when poets are singing
Their song of olden days,
And now, when the land is ringing … Continue Reading …

Lines Written upon the Death of James Buell # of Reflection
Something is missing from the balmy spring;
There is no perfume in its gentle breath;
And there are sobs in songs the wild birds sing, … Continue Reading …

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

Fading # of Reflection
She sits beside the window. All who pass
Turn once again to gaze on her sweet face.
She is so fair; but soon, too soon, alas, … Continue Reading …

A Dream # of Reflection
The shadows of a winter night were falling,
The snows were drifting in my cottage door–
And loud the voices of the winds were calling, … Continue Reading …

Idler’s Song # of Reflection
I sit in the twilight dim,
At the close of an idle day,
And list to the sweet, soft hymn … Continue Reading …

For Him Who Shall Best Understand It # of Reflection
I know a “righteous Christian,”
(That is, he thinks he’s one,)
He goes to church on Sunday … Continue Reading …

Dying # of Reflection
The great high arch of heaven, like tapestry
On ancient walls, was grandly colored–save
The quiet, cloudless west, that was a sea … Continue Reading …

Thanksgiving # of Reflection
Thank God for men! I hear the shout
From east and west go up, and out.
Thank God for men whose hearts are true; … Continue Reading …

Our Angel # of Reflection
Upon a couch all robed by careful hands
For her repose, the maiden Mable lies
Her long bright hair is braided in smooth bands– … Continue Reading …

Until the Night # of Reflection
Over the ocean of life’s commotion
We sail till the night comes on.
Sail and sail in a tiny boat, … Continue Reading …

A Tribute # of Reflection
My heart that otherwise was glad
(So much God gives to make it so)
This golden afternoon is sad … Continue Reading …

In Memory of Charlie Spaulding # of Reflection
With eyes that scarce can see for tears,
We look back o’er the little space
Of baby Charlie’s life. Six years … Continue Reading …

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