From the Grave (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
When the first sere leaves of the year were falling,I heard, with a heart that was strangely thrilled,Out of the ...
When the first sere leaves of the year were falling,I heard, with a heart that was strangely thrilled,Out of the ...
Woman, sitting at your ease,In the midst of luxuries,Bound by chains of selfishness,With no aim but "how to dress,"Does the ...
Through rivers of veins on the nameless questThe tide of my life goes hurriedly sweeping,Till it reaches that curious wheel ...
A vision beauteous as the morn, With heavenly eyes and tresses streaming, Slow glided o'er a field late shorn ...
IWe cannot choose our sorrows. One there wasWho, reverent of soul, and strong with trust,Cried, 'God, though Thou shouldst bow ...
Like some school master, kind in being stern,Who hears the children crying o'er their slatesAnd calling, "Help me master!" yet ...
For the courage which comes when we call,While troubles like hailstones fall;For the help that is somehow nigh,In the deepest ...
I know a little fellow, his name I think is Jo,But he is seldom called by that—he has a queer ...
Immortal life is something to be earned,By slow, self-conquest, comradeship with pain,And patient seeking after higher truths.We cannot follow our ...
Saw you the youth, with the face like the morning,Refilling the glass, that foamed white as the sea?Heard you the ...
Now, dear, it isn't the bold things,Great deeds of valour and might,That count the most in the summing up of ...
There are curious isles in the River of Sleep,Curious isles without number.We'll visit them all as we leisurely creepDown the ...
The cunningest thing that a baby can doIs the very first time it plays peek-a-boo;When it hides its pink little ...
Think of it, think of it over the waterThousands of men to-day march on to death,Think how the sun shines ...
England, father and mother in one,Look on your stalwart son.Sturdy and strong, with the valour of youth,Where is another so ...
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 ...
I saw a mother give wine to her boy—The rain-drops fall and fall:The pride of his parents, a household joy,A ...
One time in Arcadie's fair bowersThere met a bright immortal band,To choose their emblems from the flowersThat made an Eden ...
I think I hear the sound of horses' feetBeating upon the graveled avenue.Go to the window that looks on the ...
Do you know where the summer blooms all the year 'round,Where there never is rain on a pic-nic day?Where the ...
Wherefore in dreams are sorrows borne anew,A healed wound opened, or the past revived?Last night in my deep sleep I ...
I am tired to-night, and something,The wind maybe, or the rain,Or the cry of a bird in the copse outside,Has ...
We are the Allies of God to-day,And the width of the earth is our right of way.Let no man question ...
A under the snow in the dark and the cold,pale little sprout was humming;Sweetly it sang, 'neath the frozen mold,Of ...
Lightly they hold him and lightly they sway him—Soft as a pillow are somebody's arms.Down he goes slowly, ever so ...
One night Nurse Sleep held out her handTo tired little May."Come, go with me to Wonderland,"She said, "I know the ...
You may thrill with the speed of your thoroughbred steed,You may laugh with delight as you ride the ocean,You may ...
Into the gloom of the deep, dark night, With panting breath and a startled scream; Swift as a ...
There was a time when I was confidentThat God's stupendous mystery of birthWas mine to know. The wonder of it ...
I knew that a baby was hid in that house, Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry; But ...
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