Breakers (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
When you launch your bark for sailingOn the sea of life, O youth!Clothe your heart and soul and spiritIn the ...
When you launch your bark for sailingOn the sea of life, O youth!Clothe your heart and soul and spiritIn the ...
I saw fond lovers in that glowThat oft-times fades away too soon:I saw and said, "Their joy I know—I, too, ...
Who thinks how desolate and strangeTo me must seem the autumn's change,When housed in attic or in chest,A lonely and ...
Do you want to peep into Bedlam Town?Then come with me, when the day swings down,Into the cradle, whose rockers ...
I loved a maiden, long ago,She held within her hand my fate;And in the ruddy sunset glowWe lingered at the ...
One night Nurse Sleep held out her handTo tired little May."Come, go with me to Wonderland,"She said, "I know the ...
Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy,Is inspiration, eager to pursue,But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy,Who gives herself ...
America will not turn back;She did not idly start,But weighed full carefully and wellHer grave, important part.She chose the part ...
If you saw a lionNot within a cage,Would you tease and fret himTill he roared in rage?Would you tempt his ...
Time flies. The swift hours hurry byAnd speed us on to untried ways;New seasons ripen, perish, die,And yet love stays.The ...
I was in Dijon when the war's wild blastWas at its loudest; when there was no soundFrom dawn to dawn, ...
Let me lean hard upon the Eternal Breast;In all earth's devious ways, I sought for restAnd found it not. I ...
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone.For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,But has ...
When from dawn till noon seems one long day,And from noon till night another,Oh, then should a little boy come ...
What is flirtation? Really,How can I tell you that?But when she smiles I see its wiles,And when he lifts his ...
Life is a ponderous lesson-book, and FateThe teacher. When I came to love's fair leafMy teacher turned the page and ...
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 ...
Into the gloom of the deep, dark night, With panting breath and a startled scream; Swift as a ...
They stood at the garden gate.By the lifting of a lidShe might have read her fateIn a little thing he ...
If we sit down at set of sun,And count the things that we have done,And counting, findOne self-denying act, one ...
We will be what we could be. Do not say, "It might have been, had not this, or that, or ...
Beside us in our seeking after pleasures,Through all our restless striving after fame,Through all our search for worldly gains and ...
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 ...
Always at sea I think about the dead.On barques invisible they seem to sailThe self-same course; and from the decks ...
Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always ...
The times are not degenerate. Man's faithMounts higher than of old. No crumbling creedCan take from the immortal soul the ...
Alone she sat with her accusing heart,That, like a restless comrade frightened sleep,And every thought that found her, left a ...
We love but once. The great gold orb of lightFrom dawn to even-tide doth cast his ray;But the full splendor ...
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