The Hour (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
This is the world's stupendous hour—The supreme moment for the raceTo see the emptiness of power,The worthlessness of wealth and ...
This is the world's stupendous hour—The supreme moment for the raceTo see the emptiness of power,The worthlessness of wealth and ...
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 ...
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 ...
We are the Allies of God to-day,And the width of the earth is our right of way.Let no man question ...
Smile a little, smile a littleAs you go along,Not alone when life is pleasant,But when things go wrong.Care delights to ...
Born in the flesh, and bred in the bone,Some of us harbour stillA New World pride: and we flaunt or ...
You may thrill with the speed of your thoroughbred steed,You may laugh with delight as you ride the ocean,You may ...
One night Nurse Sleep held out her handTo tired little May."Come, go with me to Wonderland,"She said, "I know the ...
I'm sick of "musn'ts," said Dorothy D.Sick of musn'ts, as I can be.From early dawn till the close of dayI ...
Talk happiness. The world is sad enoughWithout your woes. No path is wholly rough;Look for the places that are smooth ...
If we sit down at set of sun,And count the things that we have done,And counting, findOne self-denying act, one ...
It is easy to sit in the sunshineAnd talk to the man in the shade;It is easy to float in ...
At Box Hill, SurreyA modern hour from London (as we spin Into a silver thread the miles of space Between ...
All love that has not friendship for its base,Is like a mansion built upon the sand.Though brave its walls as ...
I told you the winter would go, love, I told you the winter would go, That he'd flee in shame ...
Here, in the heart of the world, Here, in the noise and the din, Here, where our spirits were hurled ...
Wherever my feet may wander Wherever I chance to be, There comes, with the coming of even' time A vision ...
Long have the poets vaunted, in their lays, Old times, old loves, old friendships, and old wine Why should the ...
Ah yes, I love you, and with all my heart; Just as a weaker woman loves her own, Better than ...
Hers was a lonely, shadowed lot; Or so the unperceiving thought, Who looked no deeper than her face, Devoid of ...
Smile a little, smile a little, As you go along, Not alone when life is pleasant, But when things go ...
'Tis time to dress. Dost hear the music surging Like sobbing waves that roll up from the sea? Yes, yes, ...
The stork flew over a town one day, And back of each wing an infant lay; One to a rich ...
We will lay our summer away, my friend, So tenderly lay it away. It was bright and sweet to the ...
It is easy to sit in the sunshine And talk to the man in the shade; It is easy to ...
Upon the white cheek of the Cherub Year I saw a tear. Alas! I murmured, that the Year should borrow ...
All that I ask, 'says Love, 'is just to stand And gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes; For in ...
I'd rather have my verses win A place in common people's hearts, Who, toiling through the strife and din Of ...
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