Edith Wharton Poems on World Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

DEMETER PERSEPHONE HECATE HERMES In the vale of Elusis DEMETERHail, goddess, from the midmost caverned vale Of Samothracia, where with ...

Ogrin the Hermit in old age set forth This tale to them that sought him in the extreme Ancient grey ...

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.I loved light ever, light in eye and brain-No tapers mirrored in ...

AT that lost hour disowned of day and night, The after-birth of midnight, when life's face Turns to the wall ...

WILD winged thing, O brought I know not whence To beat your life out in my life's low cage; You ...

TO THE AMERICAN PRIVATE IN THE GREAT WAR Every one of you won the war- You and you and you- ...

O WIFE, wife, wife! As if the sacred name Could weary one with saying! Once again Laying against my brow ...

IOn immemorial altitudes augustGrief holds her high dominion. Bold the feetThat climb unblenching to that stern retreatWhence, looking down, man ...

Age after age the fruit of knowledge fallsTo ashes on men's lips;Love fails, faith sickens, like a dying treeLife sheds ...

WHERE suns chase suns in rhythmic dance,Where seeds are springing from the dust,Where mind sways mind with spirit-glance,High court is ...

(She Speaks.)I MEANT to be so strong and true!The world may smile and question, When?But what I might have been ...

Edith Wharton Poems on World (11 Poems)