Ella Wilcox Quotes on World (6 Quotes)

BE STILL Be stiller yet and listen. Set the screenOf silence at the portal of your will.Relax, and let the world go by unheard.And seal your lips with some all-sacred word.

Do you wish the world were betterLet me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always straight and true.

What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand timesThe new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

Do you wish the world were happyThen remember day by dayJust to scatter seeds of kindnessAs you pass along the way. . . .

Such menial duties but her wayOf looking at them lent a graceTo things the world deemed commonplace.

The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have INot a church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a riverAnd the lamp of my soul is alight with love for life, and the world, and the Giver.