Contentment (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
If any line that I ever penned, Or any word I have spoken, Has comforted heart of foe or friend ...
If any line that I ever penned, Or any word I have spoken, Has comforted heart of foe or friend ...
A yacht from its harbour ropes pulled free, And leaped like a steed o'er the race track blue, Then up ...
She sits beside the window. All who pass Turn once again to gaze on her sweet face. She is so ...
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the ...
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth ...
A trusting little leaf of green, A bold audacious frost; A rendezvous, a kiss or two, And youth for ever ...
Well, Mabel, 'tis over and ended--- The ball I wrote was to be; And oh! it was perfectly splendid--- If ...
All that I ask, 'says Love, 'is just to stand And gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes; For in ...
Though with gods the world is cumbered, Gods unnamed, and gods unnumbered, Never god was known to be Who had ...
Wife Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast. Tell me there are no memories of your past ...
Once in the world's first prime, When nothing lived or stirred, Nothing but new-born Time, Nor was there even a ...
Whoever you are as you read this, Whatever your trouble or grief, I want you to know and to heed ...
At morn the wise man walked abroad, Proud with the learning of great fools. He laughed and said, 'There is ...
Hers was a lonely, shadowed lot; Or so the unperceiving thought, Who looked no deeper than her face, Devoid of ...
Because of the fullness of what I had, All that I have seems poor and vain. If I had not ...
After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires, ...
It is easy to sit in the sunshine And talk to the man in the shade; It is easy to ...
Don't look for the flaws as you go through life; And even when you find them, It is wise and ...
Under the light of the silver moon We two sat, when our hearts were young; The night was warm with ...
For many long uninterrupted years She was the friend and confidant of Art; They walked together, heart communed with heart ...
How can I wait until you come to me? The once fleet mornings linger by the way; Their sunny smiles ...
All in the beautiful Autumn weather One thought lingers with me and stays; Death and winter are coming together, Though ...
Every morning, as I walk down From my dreary lodgings, toward the town, I see at a window, near the ...
Bohemia, o'er thy unatlassed borders How many cross, with half-reluctant feet, And unformed fears of dangers and disorders, To find ...
I sit in the twilight dim At the close of an idle day, And I list to the soft sweet ...
In the rapture of life and of living, I lift up my head and rejoice, And I thank the great ...
God, what a joy it is to plant a tree, And from the sallow earth to watch it rise, Lifting ...
If all the ships I have at sea Should come a-sailing home to me, From sunny lands, and lands of ...
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays. To live, to breathe, to wonder ...
Let me to-day do something that shall take A little sadness from the world's vast store, And may I be ...
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