Queries (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Well, how has it been with you since we metThat last strange time of a hundred times?When we met to ...
Well, how has it been with you since we metThat last strange time of a hundred times?When we met to ...
I heard such a curious storyOf Santa Claus. Once, so they say,He set out to find what people were kind,Before ...
She waited in a rose-hued room;A wanton-hearted creature she,But beautiful and bright to seeAs some great orchid just in bloom.Upon ...
You who are loudly crying out for peace,You who are wanting love to vanquish hate.How is it in the four ...
Give us a call! We keep good beer,Wine, and brandy, and whiskey here;Our doors are open to boys and men,And ...
Not Atlas, with his shoulders bent beneath the weighty world,Bore such a burden as this man, on whom the Gods ...
On the white throat of useless passionThat scorched my soul with its burning breathI clutched my hands in murderous fashion,And ...
You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well,How could the hand be enemy of the arm, Or seed ...
There was a kingdom known as the Mind,A kingdom vast as fair,And the brave king, Brain, had the right to ...
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 ...
Adieu, Romauld! But thou canst not forget me.Although no more I haunt thy dreams at night,Thy hungering heart forever must ...
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 ...
In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek,And in the pallor that succeeds it; byThe quivering lid of an averted ...
It may be you've seen her eyes,Dark and deep like midnight skies;You mayhap have seen them flashUnderneath the drooping lash,And ...
We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky.And all through the riotous, ...
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 ...
Woman, sitting at your ease,In the midst of luxuries,Bound by chains of selfishness,With no aim but "how to dress,"Does the ...
Through rivers of veins on the nameless questThe tide of my life goes hurriedly sweeping,Till it reaches that curious wheel ...
There was a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!She loved to wander out at night and jump about ...
The bold young Autumn came riding alongOne day where an elm-tree grew."You are fair," he said, as she bent down ...
Batter in the home place,That was nobly done;Try and get the first base—Run! Run! RUN!Ah, there, short stop, will you ...
Ho! for the day in the whole year the brightest!Long may it live in the heart of the nation!Long may ...
Nay seer, I do not doubt thy mystic lore,Nor question that the tenor of my life,Past, present and the future, ...
They drift down the hall together;He smiles in her lifted eyes;Like waves of that mighty river,The strains of the "Danube" ...
You remember the hall on the corner?To-night as I walked down streetI heard the sound of music,And the rhythmic beat ...
A vision beauteous as the morn, With heavenly eyes and tresses streaming, Slow glided o'er a field late shorn ...
In a mansion grand, just over the way,Lives bonny, beautiful Dell;You may have heard of this lady gay,For she is ...
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