The Same Old Strain (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Each day that I live I am persuaded anew,A maxim I long have believed in, is true.Each day I grow ...
Each day that I live I am persuaded anew,A maxim I long have believed in, is true.Each day I grow ...
I have been down in the darkest water—Deep, deep down where no light could pierce;Alone with the things that are ...
So thou hast the art, good dame, thou swearest,To keep Time's perishing touch at bayFrom the roseate splendor of the ...
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 ...
You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well,How could the hand be enemy of the arm, Or seed ...
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago.And etched ...
You who are loudly crying out for peace,You who are wanting love to vanquish hate.How is it in the four ...
There was a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!She loved to wander out at night and jump about ...
In the journey of life, as we travel alongTo the mystical goal that is hidden from sight,You may stumble at ...
Nay seer, I do not doubt thy mystic lore,Nor question that the tenor of my life,Past, present and the future, ...
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 ...
The danger of war, with its havoc of life, The danger of ocean, when storms are rife, The danger of ...
I saw a fair youth, with a brow broad and white,And an eye that was beaming with intellect's light:And his ...
What a terrible night! Does the Night, I wonder—The Night, with her black veil down to her feetLike an ordained ...
For the courage which comes when we call,While troubles like hailstones fall;For the help that is somehow nigh,In the deepest ...
Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out, The ships all sunk among the coral strands. I am so ...
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 ...
All that I ask, says Love, "is just to standAnd gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes;For in their depths ...
Back of each soldier who fights for France,Aye, back of each woman and manWho toils and prays through these long ...
You know that oasis, fresh and fairIn the city desert, as Greeley square?That bright triangle of scented bloomThat lies surrounded ...
Oh! when I think in what a thorny wayThe feet of men must ever walk and stray,I do not wonder ...
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 ...
You will forget me. The years are so tender,They bind up the wounds which we think are so deep,This dream ...
Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearningFor spiritual perfection here below,This vigorous frame, with healthful fervor burning,Seems my determined foe,So ...
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.—St. John the Divine.The Spirit says ...
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