The Valley Of Fear (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
In the journey of life, as we travel alongTo the mystical goal that is hidden from sight,You may stumble at ...
In the journey of life, as we travel alongTo the mystical goal that is hidden from sight,You may stumble at ...
Sometimes when I have dropped asleep, Draped in soft luxurious gloom, Across my drowsy mind will creep ...
I will paint you a sign, rumseller,And hang it above your door;A truer and better signboardThan ever you had before.I ...
A giddy young maiden with nimble feet,Heigh-ho! alack and alas!Declared she would far rather dance than eat,And the truth of ...
All through the night time, and all through the day time,Dreading the morning and dreading the night,Nearer and nearer we ...
There is grief in the cup!I saw a proud mother set wine on the board;The eyes of her son sparkled ...
There was a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!She loved to wander out at night and jump about ...
A vision beauteous as the morn, With heavenly eyes and tresses streaming, Slow glided o'er a field late shorn ...
(Suggested by the lives of Napoleon and Josephine) IOne night was full of rapture and delight—Of reunited arms and swooning ...
I saw a youth, one of God's favored few,Crowned with beauty, and talents, and health;He had climbed the steep pathway, ...
Yes, yes! I love thee, Guilo; thee alone.Why dost thou sigh, and wear that face of sorrow?The sunshine is to-day's, ...
What a terrible night! Does the Night, I wonder—The Night, with her black veil down to her feetLike an ordained ...
In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleepI wake to hear outside my window-paneThe uncurbed fury of the wild spring ...
Like some school master, kind in being stern,Who hears the children crying o'er their slatesAnd calling, "Help me master!" yet ...
How terrible these nights are when aloneWith our scarred hearts, we sit in solitude,And some old sorrow, to the world ...
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 ...
It is a common fate-a woman's lot-To waste on one the riches of her soul,Who takes the wealth she gives ...
Be not dismayed, be not dismayed when deathSets its white seal upon some worshipped face.Poor human nature for a little ...
You know that oasis, fresh and fairIn the city desert, as Greeley square?That bright triangle of scented bloomThat lies surrounded ...
Saw you the youth, with the face like the morning,Refilling the glass, that foamed white as the sea?Heard you the ...
Think of it, think of it over the waterThousands of men to-day march on to death,Think how the sun shines ...
I shall not forget you. The years may be tender,But vain are their efforts to soften my smart;And the strong ...
Only a blunder—a sad mistake;All my own fault and mine alone.The saddest error a heart can make;I was so young, ...
I into life so full of love was sentThat all the shadows which fall on the wayOf every human being ...
Wise men tell me thou, O Fate,Art invincible and great. Well, I own thy prowess; stillDare I flount thee, with ...
The Truth Teller lifts the curtain,And shows us the people's plight;And everything seems uncertain,And nothing at all looks right.Yet out ...
Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;A song I sang, full many a year ago,Smiled up at me, as in ...
In England, there are wrongs no doubt,Which should be righted; so men say,Who seek to weed earth's garden out,And give ...
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