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Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poetry, by first line

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  • The Tulip Bed At Greeley Square
    You know that oasis, fresh and fair
    In the city desert, as Greeley square?
    28 lines
  • Music In The Flat
    When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat;
    I had a taste for singing and playing and all that.
    30 lines
  • The Hammock's Complaint
    Who thinks how desolate and strange
    To me must seem the autumn's change,
    24 lines
  • Preaching Vs. Practice
    It is easy to sit in the sunshine
    And talk to the man in the shade;
    20 lines
  • An Old Man To His Sleeping Young Bride
    As when the old moon lighted by the tender
    And radiant crescent of the new is seen,
    40 lines
  • Custer: Book First
    I
    All valor died not on the plains of Troy.
    117 lines
  • Custer: Book Second
    I
    Oh, for the power to call to aid, of mine
    549 lines
  • Solitude
    Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
    Weep, and you weep alone.
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Life's Harmonies
    Let no man pray that he know not sorrow,
    Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
    0 lines, 4 comments
  • You Will Forget Me
    You will forget me. The years are so tender,
    They bind up the wounds which we think are so deep,
    24 lines, 3 comments
  • The Undiscovered Country
    Man has explored all countries and all lands,
    And made his own the secrets of each clime.
    14 lines
  • The Winds of Fate
    One ship drives east and another drives west
    With the selfsame winds that blow.
    10 lines
  • Kingdom of Love
    In the dawn of the day when the sea and the earth
    Reflected the sunrise above,
    0 lines
  • Go Plant a Tree
    God, what a joy it is to plant a tree,
    And from the sallow earth to watch it rise,
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • A March Snow
    Let the old snow be covered with the new:
    The trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden.
    14 lines
  • Life's Scars
    They say the world is round, and yet
    I often think it square,
    32 lines
  • Worth While
    It is easy enough to be pleasant,
    When life flows by like a song,
    0 lines
  • Progress
    Let there be many windows to your soul,
    That all the glory of the universe
    0 lines
  • My Ships
    If all the ships I have at sea
    Should come a-sailing home to me,
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Thanksgiving
    We walk on starry fields of white
    And do not see the daisies;
    0 lines
  • Life
    All in the dark we grope along,
    And if we go amiss
    0 lines
  • The Traveled Man
    Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out,
    The ships all sunk among the coral strands.
    28 lines
  • Which are You?
    There are two kinds of people on earth to-day;
    Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.
    0 lines
  • Bohemia
    Bohemia, o'er thy unatlassed borders
    How many cross, with half-reluctant feet,
    25 lines
  • Penalty
    Because of the fullness of what I had,
    All that I have seems poor and vain.
    16 lines
  • The Room Beneath the Rafters
    Sometimes when I have dropped asleep,
    Draped in soft luxurious gloom,
    40 lines
  • My Comrade
    Out from my window westward
    I turn full oft my face;
    36 lines
  • My Vision
    Wherever my feet may wander
    Wherever I chance to be,
    40 lines
  • A Golden Day
    The subtle beauty of this day
    Hangs o'er me like a fairy spell,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The King and the Siren
    The harsh King--Winter--sat upon the hills,
    And reigned and ruled the earth right royally.
    48 lines
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