Floods (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleepI wake to hear outside my window-paneThe uncurbed fury of the wild spring ...
In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleepI wake to hear outside my window-paneThe uncurbed fury of the wild spring ...
Little by little and one by one,Out of the ether, were worlds created;Star and planet and sea and sun,All in ...
Oh, boastful, wicked land, that once was beautiful and great,How bitter and how black must be your self-invited fate,While Time ...
For the courage which comes when we call,While troubles like hailstones fall;For the help that is somehow nigh,In the deepest ...
I step across the mystic border-land,And look upon the wonder-world of Art.How beautiful, how beautiful its hills!And all its valleys, ...
Immortal life is something to be earned,By slow, self-conquest, comradeship with pain,And patient seeking after higher truths.We cannot follow our ...
I am singing a song to the boys to-day,A song of the home that is far away.And I know that ...
Now, dear, it isn't the bold things,Great deeds of valour and might,That count the most in the summing up of ...
Back of each soldier who fights for France,Aye, back of each woman and manWho toils and prays through these long ...
Be not dismayed, be not dismayed when deathSets its white seal upon some worshipped face.Poor human nature for a little ...
Hadst thou a ship, in whose vast hold lay storedThe priceless riches of all climes and lands,Say, wouldst thou let ...
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.—St. John the Divine.The Spirit says ...
Hollow a grave where the willows wave,And lay him under the grasses,Where the pitying breeze bloweth up from the seas,And ...
This is the song for a soldierTo sing as he rides from homeTo the fields afar where the battles areOr ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is the world's stupendous hour—The supreme moment for the raceTo see the emptiness of power,The worthlessness of wealth and ...
Looking some papers over,Dusty and dim and old,I found some words that thrilled meWith their ring of genuine gold—Words that ...
Here, in the heart of the world,Here, in the noise and the din,Here, where our spirits were hurledTo battle with ...
Lord, let us pray.Give us the open mind, O God,The mind that dares believeIn paths of thought as yet untrod;The ...
Wherefore in dreams are sorrows borne anew,A healed wound opened, or the past revived?Last night in my deep sleep I ...
Oh! it is not just the men who face the guns,Not the fighters at the Front alone, to-dayWho will bring ...
Our lives are songs. God writes the words,And we set them to music at pleasure;And the song grows glad, or ...
Three million women without matesIn lonely homes on earth!And Cupid sighs at heaven's gates,Where many a spirit ego waitsIts call ...
You never can tell when you send a word,Like an arrow shot from a bowBy an archer blind, be it ...
We are the Allies of God to-day,And the width of the earth is our right of way.Let no man question ...
Oh, an ugly thing is an iron rail,Black, with its face to the dust.But it carries a message where winged ...
As I came through the Valley of Despair,As I came through the valley, on my sight,More awful than the darkness ...
Little by little the year grows old,The red leaves drop from the maple boughs;The sun grows dim, and the winds ...
When you launch your bark for sailingOn the sea of life, O youth!Clothe your heart and soul and spiritIn the ...
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