Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Master Hand, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is something too strange to understand,
How all the chords on the instrument,
Whether sorr...

A Meeting, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;
A song I sang, full many a year ago,
Smiled up at...

Misalliance, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I am troubled tonight with a curious pain;
It is not of the flesh, it is not of the brain,
N...

The City, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I own the charms of lovely Nature; still,
In human nature more delight I find.
Though sweet th...

The Common Lot, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is a common fate--a woman's lot--
To waste on one the riches of her soul,
Who takes the wea...

Communism, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When my blood flows calm as a purling river,
When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway,
I...

Constancy, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I will be true. Mad stars forsake their courses,
And led by reckless meteors, turn away
From ...

Conversion, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I have lived this life as a skeptic lives it,
I have said the sweetness was less than the gall
...

Courage, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is a courage, a majestic thing
That springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown,
M...

Creation, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The impulse of all love is to create.
God was so full of love, in his embrace
He clasped the n...

The Creed, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Whoever has begotten by pure love,
And came desired and welcome into life,
Is of immaculate c...

Dawn, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Day's sweetest moments are at dawn;
Refreshed by his long sleep, the Light
Kisses the languid...

Deathless, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There lies in the centre of each man's heart,
A longing and love for the good and pure;
And i...

Delilah, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In the midnight of darkness and terror,
When I would grope nearer to God,
With my back to a r...

Desire, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted,
No hope it cherishes through waiting years,
...