A Married Coquette (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.It is time you found ...
Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.It is time you found ...
The world was widowed by the death of Christ:Vainly its suffering soul for peace has soughtAnd found it not.For nothing, ...
There are not many sins when once we sift them.In actions of evolving human soulsStriving to reach high goalsAnd falling ...
If Christ came questioning His world to-day, (If Christ came questioning,) 'What hast thou done to glorify thy God, Since ...
Never since the race was started,Had a boy in any clime,Cause to be so thankful-hearted,As the boys of present time.Not ...
On the white throat of useless passionThat scorched my soul with its burning breathI clutched my hands in murderous fashion,And ...
The danger of war, with its havoc of life, The danger of ocean, when storms are rife, The danger of ...
I am troubled to-night with a curious pain;It is not of the flesh, it is not of the brain,Nor yet ...
I am all tired out, said the mouth, with a pout,I am all tired out with talk.Just wait, said the ...
All that I ask, says Love, "is just to standAnd gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes;For in their depths ...
This is the song for a soldierTo sing as he rides from homeTo the fields afar where the battles areOr ...
Show me the way that leads to the true life.I do not care what tempests may assail me,I shall be ...
Now what were the words of Jesus,And what would He pause and say,If we were to meet in home or ...
O mother who sips sweetened liquors!Look down at the child on your breast;Think, think of the rough path before him,And ...
When I pass from earth away,Palsied though I be and gray,May my spirit keep so youngThat my failing, faltering tongueFrames ...
If all the end of this continuous strivingWere simply to attain,How poor would seem the planning and contrivingThe endless urging ...
There was a time when I was confidentThat God's stupendous mystery of birthWas mine to know. The wonder of it ...
All that I ask, 'says Love, 'is just to stand And gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes; For in ...
I prayed for riches, and achieved success; All that I touched turned into gold. Alas! My cares were greater and ...
If all the end of this continuous striving Were simply to attain, How poor would seem the planning and contriving ...
Sometimes, when I am toil-worn and aweary, And tired out with working long and well, And earth is dark, and ...
On the white throat of useless passion That scorched my soul with its burning breath I clutched my fingers in ...
Hers was a lonely, shadowed lot; Or so the unperceiving thought, Who looked no deeper than her face, Devoid of ...
He never made a fortune, or a noise In the world where men are seeking after fame; But he had ...
Ah yes, I love you, and with all my heart; Just as a weaker woman loves her own, Better than ...
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