Poems of Sentiment by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poems of Sentiment

Double Carnations # of Sentiment
A wild Pink nestled in a garden bed,
A rich Carnation flourished high above her,
One day he chanced to see her pretty head … Continue Reading …

Never Mind # of Sentiment
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, … Continue Reading …

Two Women # of Sentiment
I know two women, and one is chaste
And cold as the snows on a winter waste,
Stainless ever in act and thought … Continue Reading …

It All Will Come Out Right # of Sentiment
Whatever is a cruel wrong,
Whatever is unjust,
The honest years that speed along … Continue Reading …

A Warning # of Sentiment
There was a flame, oh! such a tiny flame—
One fleeting hour had spanned its birth and death,
But for a silly child with playful breath … Continue Reading …

Shrines # of Sentiment
About a holy shrine or sacred place,
Where many hearts have bowed in earnest prayer,
The loveliest spirits congregate from space, … Continue Reading …

The Watcher # of Sentiment
She gave her soul and body for a carriage,
And livened lackey with a vacant grin,
And all the rest—house, lands—and called it marriage: … Continue Reading …

Swimming Song # of Sentiment
I am coming, coming to thee,
My strong-armed lover, the Sea!
On thy great broad breast I will lie and rest, … Continue Reading …

The Law # of Sentiment
The sun may be clouded, yet ever the sun
Will sweep on its course till the cycle is run.
And when into chaos the systems are hurled, … Continue Reading …

Love, Time, and Will # of Sentiment
A soul immortal, Time, God everywhere,
Without, within—how can a heart despair,
Or talk of failure, obstacles, and doubt? … Continue Reading …

The Two Ages # of Sentiment
On great cathedral window I have seen
A summer sunset swoon and sink away,
Lost in the splendours of immortal art. … Continue Reading …

Couleur de Rose # of Sentiment
I want more lives in which to love
This world so full of beauty,
I want more days to use the ways … Continue Reading …

Last Love # of Sentiment
The first flower of the spring is not so fair
Or bright as one the ripe midsummer brings.
The first faint note the forest warbler sings … Continue Reading …

Life’s Track # of Sentiment
This game of life is a dangerous play,
Each human soul must watch alway,
From the first to the very last. … Continue Reading …

An Ode to Time # of Sentiment
Ho! sportsman Time, whose chargers fleet
The moments, madly driven,
Beat in the dust beneath their feet … Continue Reading …

Regret and Remorse # of Sentiment
Regret with streaming eyes doth seem alway
A maiden widowed on her wedding day. … Continue Reading …

Easter Morn # of Sentiment
A truth that has long lain buried
At Superstition’s door,
I see, in the dawn uprising … Continue Reading …

Blind # of Sentiment
Whatever a man may think or feel
He can tell to the world and it hears aright;
But it bids the woman conceal, conceal, … Continue Reading …

The Yellow-covered Almanac # of Sentiment
I left the farm when mother died and changed my place of dwelling
To daughter Susie’s stylish house right on the city street:
And there was them before I came that sort of scared me, telling … Continue Reading …

The Little White Hearse # of Sentiment
Somebody’s baby was buried to-day—
The empty white hearse from the grave rumbled back,
And the morning somehow seemed less smiling and gay … Continue Reading …

Realisation # of Sentiment
I tread the paths of earlier times
Where all my steps were set to rhymes. … Continue Reading …

Success # of Sentiment
As we gaze up life’s slope, as we gaze
In the morn, ere the dewdrops are dry,
What splendour hangs over the ways, … Continue Reading …

The Lady and the Dame # of Sentiment
So, thou hast the art, good dame, thou swearest,
To keep Time’s perishing touch at bay
From the roseate splendour of the cheek so tender, … Continue Reading …

Heaven and Hell # of Sentiment
While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face,
Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand
And taught my doubting heart to understand … Continue Reading …

Love’s Supremacy # of Sentiment
As yon great Sun in his supreme condition
Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own,
So does my love absorb each vain ambition, … Continue Reading …

The Eternal Will # of Sentiment
There is no thing we cannot overcome
Say not thy evil instinct is inherited,
Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, … Continue Reading …

Insight # of Sentiment
On the river of life, as I float along,
I see with the spirit’s sight
That many a nauseous weed of wrong … Continue Reading …

A Woman’s Love # of Sentiment
So vast the tide of love within me surging,
It overflows like some stupendous sea,
The confines of the Present and To-be; … Continue Reading …

The Pæan of Peace # of Sentiment
With ever some wrong to be righting,
With self ever seeking for place,
The world has been striving and fighting … Continue Reading …

Has Been # of Sentiment
That melancholy phrase “It might have been,”
However sad, doth in its heart enfold
A hidden germ of promise! for I hold … Continue Reading …

Duty’s Path # of Sentiment
Out from the harbour of youth’s bay
There leads the path of pleasure;
With eager steps we walk that way … Continue Reading …

March # of Sentiment
Like some reformer, who with mien austere,
Neglected dress, and loud insistent tones,
More rasping than the wrongs which she bemoans, … Continue Reading …

The End of the Summer # of Sentiment
The birds laugh loud and long together
When Fashion’s followers speed away
At the first cool breath of autumn weather. … Continue Reading …

Sun Shadows # of Sentiment
There never was success so nobly gained,
Or victory so free from selfish dross,
But in the winning some one had been pained … Continue Reading …

He that Looketh # of Sentiment
Yea, she and I have broken God’s command,
And in His sight are branded with our shame.
And yet I do not even know her name, … Continue Reading …

An Erring Woman’s Love # of Sentiment
She was a light and wanton maid:
Not one whom fickle Love betrayed,
For indolence was her undoer. … Continue Reading …

A Song of Republics # of Sentiment
Fair Freedom’s ship, too long adrift—
Of every wind the sport—
Now rigged and manned, her course well planned, … Continue Reading …

Memorial Day—1892 # of Sentiment
The quiet graves of our country’s braves
Through thirty Junes and Decembers
Have solemnly lain under sun and rain, … Continue Reading …

When baby Souls Sail Out # of Sentiment
When from our mortal vision
Grown men and women go
To sail strange fields Elysian … Continue Reading …

To Another Woman’s Baby # of Sentiment
I list your prattle, baby boy,
And hear your pattering feet
With feelings more of pain than joy … Continue Reading …

Diamonds # of Sentiment
The tears of fallen women turned to ice
By man’s cold pity for repentant vice.

Rubies # of Sentiment
The crimson life-drops from a virgin heart
Pierced to the core by Cupid’s fatal dart.

Sapphires # of Sentiment
Lost rays of light that wandered off alone
And down through space were hurled … Continue Reading …

Turquoise # of Sentiment
A baby went to heaven while it slept,
And, waking, missed its mother’s arms, and wept. … Continue Reading …

Reform # of Sentiment
The time has come when men with hearts and brains
Must rise and take the misdirected reins … Continue Reading …

A Minor Chord # of Sentiment
I heard a strain of music in the street—
A wandering waif of sound. And then straightway
A nameless desolation filled the day. … Continue Reading …

Death’s Protest # of Sentiment
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man?
Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling
To my false rival, Life? I do but bring … Continue Reading …

September # of Sentiment
My life’s long radiant Summer halts at last,
And lo! beside my path way I behold
Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold … Continue Reading …

Wail of an Old-timer # of Sentiment
Each new invention doubles our worries an’ our troubles,
These scientific fellows are spoilin’ of our land;
With motor, wire, an’ cable, now’-days we’re scarcely able … Continue Reading …

Was, Is, and Yet-to-be # of Sentiment
Was, Is, and Yet-to-Be
Were chatting over a cup of tea. … Continue Reading …

Mistakes # of Sentiment
God sent us here to make mistakes,
To strive, to fail, to re-begin,
To taste the tempting fruit of sin, … Continue Reading …

Dual # of Sentiment
You say that your nature is double; that life
Seems more and more intricate, complex, and dual,
Because in your bosom there wages the strife … Continue Reading …

The All-creative Spark # of Sentiment
Pain can go guised as joy, dross pass for gold,
Vulgarity can masquerade as wit,
Or spite wear friendship’s garments; but I hold … Continue Reading …

Be not Content # of Sentiment
Be not content—contentment means inaction;
The growing soul aches on its upward quest;
Satiety is twin to satisfaction; … Continue Reading …

Action # of Sentiment
For ever stars are winging
Their swift and endless race;
For ever suns are swinging … Continue Reading …

Two Roses # of Sentiment
A humble wild-rose, pink and slender,
Was plucked and placed in a bright bouquet,
Beside a Jacqueminot’s royal splendour, … Continue Reading …

Satiety # of Sentiment
To yearn for what we have not had, to sit
With hungry eyes glued on the Future’s gate,
Why, that is heaven compared to having it … Continue Reading …

A Solar Eclipse # of Sentiment
In that great journey of the stars through space
About the mighty, all-directing Sun,
The pallid, faithful Moon has been the one … Continue Reading …

A Suggestion # of Sentiment
Let the wild red-rose bloom. Though not to thee
So delicately perfect as the white
And unwed lily drooping in the light, … Continue Reading …

The Depths # of Sentiment
Not only sun-kissed heights are fair. Below
The cold, dark billows of the frowning deep
Do lovely blossoms of the ocean sleep, … Continue Reading …

Life’s Opera # of Sentiment
Like an opera-house is the world, I ween,
Where the passionate lover of music is seen … Continue Reading …

The Salt Sea-wind # of Sentiment
When Venus, mother and maker of blisses,
Rose out of the billows, large-limbed, and fair,
She stood on the sands and blew sweet kisses … Continue Reading …

New Year # of Sentiment
New Year, I look straight in your eyes—
Our ways and our interests blend;
You may be a foe in disguise, … Continue Reading …

Concentration # of Sentiment
The age is too diffusive. Time and Force
Are frittered out and bring no satisfaction.
The way seems lost to straight determined action. … Continue Reading …

Thoughts # of Sentiment
Thoughts do not need the wings of words
To fly to any goal.
Like subtle lightnings, not like birds, … Continue Reading …

Luck # of Sentiment
Luck is the tuning of our inmost thought
To chord with God’s great plan.
That done, ah! know, … Continue Reading …

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