Greeting Poem (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
There was a sound in the wind to-day,Like a joyous cymbal ringing!And the leaves of the trees talked with the ...
There was a sound in the wind to-day,Like a joyous cymbal ringing!And the leaves of the trees talked with the ...
Fire! Fire! Fire! the cry rang out on the night air,The roving winds caught it up, and the very heavens ...
Flowers of France in the Spring,Your growth is a beautiful thing;But give us your fragrance and bloom,Yea, give us your ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
ISir Knight of the world's oldest order,Sir Knight of the Army of God,You have crossed the strange mystical border,The ground ...
All through the Castle of High-bred Ease,Where the chief employment was do-as-you-please,Spread consternation and wild despair.The queen was wringing her ...
The Muse said, Let us sing a little songWherein no hint of wrong,No echo of the great world need, or ...
The devil to Bacchus said, one day,In a scowling, growling, petulant way,As he came from earth to hell:"There's a soul ...
False! Good God, I am dreaming!No, no, it never can be—You who are so true in seeming,You, false to your ...
Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl,A Hawk, a Canary, an old Marsh-Fowl,One day all meet togetherTo hold a caucus and ...
Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad?You think I need to ask for heavenly grace?I think you are a ...
Alone I climb the steep ascending pathWhich leads to knowledge. In the babbling throngsThat hurry after, shouting to the worldSmall ...
IThere is no picturesqueness and no glory,No halo of romance, in war to-day.It is a hideous thing; Time would turn ...
Here is a lock of his soft, dark hair,And here are the letters he wrote to me.And the ring of ...
Time's finger on the dial of my lifePoints to high noon! and yet the half-spent dayLeaves less than half remaining, ...
I have been down in the darkest water—Deep, deep down where no light could pierce;Alone with the things that are ...
So thou hast the art, good dame, thou swearest,To keep Time's perishing touch at bayFrom the roseate splendor of the ...
Out of the midnight, rayless and cheerless,Into the morning's golden light;Out of the clutches of wrong and ruin,Into the arms ...
A giddy young maiden with nimble feet,Heigh-ho! alack and alas!Declared she would far rather dance than eat,And the truth of ...
I saw two youths: both were fair in the face,They had set out foot to foot in life's race;But one ...
I know a little fellow, his name I think is Jo,But he is seldom called by that—he has a queer ...
You know that oasis, fresh and fairIn the city desert, as Greeley square?That bright triangle of scented bloomThat lies surrounded ...
England, father and mother in one,Look on your stalwart son.Sturdy and strong, with the valour of youth,Where is another so ...
Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;A song I sang, full many a year ago,Smiled up at me, as in ...
I called to the wind of the Winter,As he sped like a steed on his way,"Oh! rest for awhile on ...
The Truth Teller lifts the curtain,And shows us the people's plight;And everything seems uncertain,And nothing at all looks right.Yet out ...
Out over childhood's borders,Manhood's brave banners unfurled,Weighed down with precepts and ordersA boy has gone into the world.Nobody thinks it ...
When you launch your bark for sailingOn the sea of life, O youth!Clothe your heart and soul and spiritIn the ...
Born in the flesh, and bred in the bone,Some of us harbour stillA New World pride: and we flaunt or ...
Time flies. The swift hours hurry byAnd speed us on to untried ways;New seasons ripen, perish, die,And yet love stays.The ...
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