Wishing (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always ...
Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always ...
I ofttimes see her face here in the gloom,When—dreaming by my fire as dreamers dream—I watch the flickering fire-lights, till ...
I saw Time in his workshop carving faces; Scattered around his tools lay, blunting griefs, Sharp cares that cut out ...
Methinks ofttimes my heart is like some beeThat goes forth through the summer day and sings,And gathers honey from all ...
Yet after all we cry, Shall God deviseNo way to bring His banish'd ones again?Shall there not some aspersion of ...
My life is but a weaving, between my God and me,I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily.Ofttimes he ...
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
I HAVE loved; for the first time with passion I rave! I then was the servant, but now am the ...
My senses ofttimes are oppress'd, Oft stagnant is my blood; But when by Christel's sight I'm blest, I feel my ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
The mind, with its own eyes and ears, May for these others have no care; No matter where this body ...
They lived apart for three long years, Bill Barnes and Nell his wife; He took his joy from other girls, ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
Love is enough. Let us not ask for gold. Wealth breeds false aims, and pride and selfishness; In those serene, ...
My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar, Higher and higher on soul-lent wings; But ever and often and ...
Priam's castle-walls had sunk, Troy in dust and ashes lay, And each Greek, with triumph drunk, Richly laden with his ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
When the vexed hubbub of our world of gain Roars round about me as I walk the street, The myriad ...
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