In The Cup (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
There is grief in the cup!I saw a proud mother set wine on the board;The eyes of her son sparkled ...
There is grief in the cup!I saw a proud mother set wine on the board;The eyes of her son sparkled ...
In the journey of life, as we travel alongTo the mystical goal that is hidden from sight,You may stumble at ...
In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek,And in the pallor that succeeds it; byThe quivering lid of an averted ...
They drift down the hall together;He smiles in her lifted eyes;Like waves of that mighty river,The strains of the "Danube" ...
A vision beauteous as the morn, With heavenly eyes and tresses streaming, Slow glided o'er a field late shorn ...
In a mansion grand, just over the way,Lives bonny, beautiful Dell;You may have heard of this lady gay,For she is ...
Thou dost not know it! but to hearOne word of praise from thee,There is no pain I would not bear,No ...
I saw two youths: both were fair in the face,They had set out foot to foot in life's race;But one ...
I saw a fair youth, with a brow broad and white,And an eye that was beaming with intellect's light:And his ...
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 ...
Be not dismayed, be not dismayed when deathSets its white seal upon some worshipped face.Poor human nature for a little ...
Have you heard of the king of Candy land?Well, listen while I sing,He has pages on every hand,For he is ...
All the world was wearying,All the world was sad;Everything was shadow-filled;Things were going bad.Then a rumour stirred all heartsAs a ...
High o'er the clouds a Sunbeam shone,And far down under him,With a subtle grace that was all her own,The Mist ...
I think I hear the sound of horses' feetBeating upon the graveled avenue.Go to the window that looks on the ...
In grandmamma's kitchen, things got in a riot—The cream in a pot on the shelf,Where everything always seemed peaceful and ...
Three million women without matesIn lonely homes on earth!And Cupid sighs at heaven's gates,Where many a spirit ego waitsIts call ...
Smile a little, smile a littleAs you go along,Not alone when life is pleasant,But when things go wrong.Care delights to ...
Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy,Is inspiration, eager to pursue,But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy,Who gives herself ...
One bitter time of mourning, I remember,When day, and night, my sad heart did complain,My life, I said, was one ...
Born in the flesh, and bred in the bone,Some of us harbour stillA New World pride: and we flaunt or ...
I saw fond lovers in that glowThat oft-times fades away too soon:I saw and said, "Their joy I know—I, too, ...
They stood at the garden gate.By the lifting of a lidShe might have read her fateIn a little thing he ...
If we sit down at set of sun,And count the things that we have done,And counting, findOne self-denying act, one ...
The times are not degenerate. Man's faithMounts higher than of old. No crumbling creedCan take from the immortal soul the ...
In the face of the sun are great thunderbolts hurled,And the storm-clouds have shut out its light;But a Rainbow of ...
When first I looked upon the face of PainI shrank repelled, as one shrinks from a foeWho stands with dagger ...
There is a haunting phantom called Regret,A shadowy creature robed somewhat like Woe,But fairer in the face, whom all men ...
The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wingOr note enlivened the depressing wood,A soiled and sullen, stubborn snowdrift stoodBeside ...
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