The Year Outgrows the Spring (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The year outgrows the spring it thought so sweet,And clasps the summer with a new delight,Yet wearied, leaves her languors ...
The year outgrows the spring it thought so sweet,And clasps the summer with a new delight,Yet wearied, leaves her languors ...
Hollow a grave where the willows wave,And lay him under the grasses,Where the pitying breeze bloweth up from the seas,And ...
Wise men tell me thou, O Fate,Art invincible and great. Well, I own thy prowess; stillDare I flount thee, with ...
This is the song for a soldierTo sing as he rides from homeTo the fields afar where the battles areOr ...
Oh! that is a beautiful land, I wis,The land of the Gone-away Souls.Yes, a lovelier region by far than this(Though ...
After the May time and after the June timeRare with blossoms and perfume sweet,Cometh the round world's royal noon time,The ...
To J. J. H., Of KentuckyGathering brands from the burning,Plucking them out of the fire,Lifting the sheep that have wandered,Out ...
In England, there are wrongs no doubt,Which should be righted; so men say,Who seek to weed earth's garden out,And give ...
I called to the wind of the Winter,As he sped like a steed on his way,"Oh! rest for awhile on ...
Out over childhood's borders,Manhood's brave banners unfurled,Weighed down with precepts and ordersA boy has gone into the world.Nobody thinks it ...
The passion you forbade my lips to utterWill not be silenced. You must hear it inThe sullen thunders when they ...
Here, in the heart of the world,Here, in the noise and the din,Here, where our spirits were hurledTo battle with ...
I saw a Christian, a temperance man,Casting his ballot one day at the polls:One who believes he does what he ...
Wherefore in dreams are sorrows borne anew,A healed wound opened, or the past revived?Last night in my deep sleep I ...
Show me the way that leads to the true life.I do not care what tempests may assail me,I shall be ...
Now what were the words of Jesus,And what would He pause and say,If we were to meet in home or ...
Let the dream go. Are there not other dreamsIn vastness of clouds hid from thy sightThat yet shall gild with ...
I am tired to-night, and something,The wind maybe, or the rain,Or the cry of a bird in the copse outside,Has ...
O mother who sips sweetened liquors!Look down at the child on your breast;Think, think of the rough path before him,And ...
Who travels alone with his eye on the heights,Though he laughs in the daytime, oft weeps through the nights;For courage ...
If we sit down at set of sun,And count the things that we have done,And counting, findOne self-denying act, one ...
I know as my life grows older,And mine eyes have clearer sight,That under each rank Wrong somewhereThere lies the root ...
Were I man grown, I'd standWith clean heart, soul, and hand,An honor to this land.I would be good and true.I ...
We love but once. The great gold orb of lightFrom dawn to even-tide doth cast his ray;But the full splendor ...
Obscured the sun, the world is dark;Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc,Send down thy spark.Let every heart in France be ...
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm ...
As we journey along, with a laugh and a song,We see, on youth's flower-decked slope,Like a beacon of light, shining ...
There is a courage, a majestic thingThat springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown,Minerva-like, and dares all dangers known,And ...
All perfect things are saddening in effect.The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes,The matchless tinting on the royal roseWhose ...
Man has explored all countries and all lands,And made his own the secrets of each clime.Now, ere the world has ...
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