An Inspiration (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
However the battle is ended, Though proudly the victor comes With fluttering flags and prancing nags And echoing roll of ...
However the battle is ended, Though proudly the victor comes With fluttering flags and prancing nags And echoing roll of ...
In the long run fame finds the deserving man. The lucky wight may prosper for a day, But in good ...
I prayed for riches, and achieved success; All that I touched turned into gold. Alas! My cares were greater and ...
'Twas just a slight flirtation, And where's the harm, I pray, In that amusing pastime So much in vogue to-day? ...
You left me with the autumn time; When the winter stripped the forest bare, Then dressed it in his spotless ...
I hold it the duty of one who is gifted And specially dowered I all men's sight, To know no ...
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays. To live, to breathe, to wonder ...
When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat; I had a taste for singing and playing and ...
Am I know not whence I came, I know not whither I go; But the fact stands clear that I ...
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth ...
Love is enough. Let us not ask for gold. Wealth breeds false aims, and pride and selfishness; In those serene, ...
However the battle is ended, Though proudly the victor comes, With flaunting flags and neighing nags And echoing roll of ...
Whenever I am prone to doubt or wonder - I check myself, and say, 'That mighty One Who made the ...
He never made a fortune, or a noise In the world where men are seeking after fame; But he had ...
When the soft sweet wind o' the south went by, I dwelt in the light of a dark brown eye; ...
I'm pardoned out. Again the stars Shine on me with their myriad eyes. So long I've peered 'twixt iron bars, ...
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, ...
The stork flew over a town one day, And back of each wing an infant lay; One to a rich ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your ...
There is nothing, I hold, in the way of work That a human being may not achieve If he does ...
We will be what we could be. Do not say, "It might have been, had not this, or that, or ...
Do you remember the name I wore - The old pet-name of Little Queen - In the dear, dead days ...
It is easy to sit in the sunshine And talk to the man in the shade; It is easy to ...
When I shall meet God's generous dispensers Of all the riches in the heavenly store, Those lesser gods, who act ...
You call me an angel of love and of light, A being of goodness and heavenly fire, Sent out from ...
Every morning, as I walk down From my dreary lodgings, toward the town, I see at a window, near the ...
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