Dear Motherland Of France (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF FRANCEOur Motherland, dear Motherland,The source of beauty and of Art,Who but thy children ...
DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF FRANCEOur Motherland, dear Motherland,The source of beauty and of Art,Who but thy children ...
Three million women without matesIn lonely homes on earth!And Cupid sighs at heaven's gates,Where many a spirit ego waitsIts call ...
O mother who sips sweetened liquors!Look down at the child on your breast;Think, think of the rough path before him,And ...
Above the din of commerce, above the clamor and rattleOf labor disputing with riches, of Anarchists' threats and groans,Above the ...
We are the Allies of God to-day,And the width of the earth is our right of way.Let no man question ...
When you launch your bark for sailingOn the sea of life, O youth!Clothe your heart and soul and spiritIn the ...
Do you want to peep into Bedlam Town?Then come with me, when the day swings down,Into the cradle, whose rockers ...
AIR—"O SUSANNAH!"Ye soldiers in the temperance cause,Our work is but begun.Oh! sit not down in idlenessAnd think the field is ...
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is ...
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone.For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,But has ...
Talk happiness. The world is sad enoughWithout your woes. No path is wholly rough;Look for the places that are smooth ...
I know as my life grows older,And mine eyes have clearer sight,That under each rank Wrong somewhereThere lies the root ...
They stood at the garden gate.By the lifting of a lidShe might have read her fateIn a little thing he ...
I was in Dijon when the war's wild blastWas at its loudest; when there was no soundFrom dawn to dawn, ...
We will be what we could be. Do not say, "It might have been, had not this, or that, or ...
It is easy to sit in the sunshineAnd talk to the man in the shade;It is easy to float in ...
Were I man grown, I'd standWith clean heart, soul, and hand,An honor to this land.I would be good and true.I ...
The times are not degenerate. Man's faithMounts higher than of old. No crumbling creedCan take from the immortal soul the ...
In the still jungle of the senses layA tiger soundly sleeping, till one dayA bold young hunter chanced to come ...
The hurry of the times affects us soIn this swift rushing hour, we crowd and pressAnd thrust each other backward ...
Man has explored all countries and all lands,And made his own the secrets of each clime.Now, ere the world has ...
The Day has never understood the Gloaming or the Night;Though sired by one Creative Power, and nursed at Nature's breast;The ...
The saddest hour of anguish and of lossIs not that season of supreme despairWhen we can find no least light ...
The impulse of all love is to create.God was so full of love, in his embraceHe clasped the empty nothingness ...
The mighty forces of mysterious spaceAre one by one subdued by lordly man.The awful lightning that for eons ranTheir devastating ...
There was a time when I was confidentThat God's stupendous mystery of birthWas mine to know. The wonder of it ...
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it. Cast sweets into its cup whene'er you can. No heart so ...
Good-bye - Yes, I am going, Sudden? Well, you are right. But a startling truth came home to me With ...
There is much in life that makes me sorry as I journey down life's way. And I seem to see ...
Now ere I slept, my prayer had been that I might see my way To do the will of Christ, ...
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