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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The Rating of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems

  1. The Actor
  2. Winter Rain
  3. I Love You
  4. Friendship
  5. Love’s Language
  6. Angel or Demon
  7. Will (You will be what you will to be)
  8. Dawn
  9. A Dirge
  10. The Traveller
  11. The New Commandment
  12. December
  13. Babyland
  14. October
  15. The World's Need
  16. Night
  17. The Black Man's Claim
  18. The River
  19. Worth Living
  20. I Am
  21. Love
  22. The Message
  23. Happiness
  24. Wishing
  25. The Year
  26. Life’s Scars
  27. Absence
  28. Now
  29. Which Are You?
  30. The Lullaby
  31. Dear Motherland of France
  32. The Voices of the City
  33. Two
  34. Courage
  35. Will (There is no chance, no destiny, no fate)
  36. Illusion
  37. Beyond
  38. Change
  39. The Snowflake
  40. America
  41. The Ship and the Boat
  42. A Fancy
  43. Advice
  44. Discontent
  45. The Past
  46. Parting
  47. Life Is a Privilege
  48. Life and Death
  49. As We Look Back
  50. Joy
  51. Delilah
  52. Contentment
  53. All Roads That Lead To God Are Good
  54. Conversation
  55. Comrades
  56. After the Battles Are Over
  57. Father
  58. Climbing
  59. Worth While
  60. Hidden Gems
  61. The Voices of the People
  62. Wishes
  63. Under the Moon
  64. Noon
  65. The Word
  66. A Reminiscence
  67. The Question
  68. You Will Forget Me
  69. The Ladder
  70. Words
  71. Inspiration
  72. A Crushed Leaf
  73. Canada
  74. A Rainy Night
  75. An Old Song
  76. Christmas Fancies
  77. “It Might Have Been”
  78. A Leaf
  79. At the Window
  80. Nirvana
  81. All for Me
  82. We Two
  83. Then and Now
  84. Grief
  85. A Song of Life
  86. In the Garden
  87. A Fallen Leaf
  88. The Night
  89. A Maiden to Her Mirror
  90. The Sonnet
  91. A Golden Day
  92. Justice
  93. An Autumn Reverie
  94. A Lovers’ Quarrel
  95. A Song of Faith
  96. The Wish
  97. Love Song
  98. A Woman’s Hand
  99. The Queen’s Last Ride
  100. A Grey Mood
  101. A Baby in the House
  102. Mirage
  103. The Statue
  104. War
  105. A Ballade of the Unborn Dead
  106. Found
  107. Blind Sorrow
  108. Sonnets of Sorrow. 6. My love, my love, how often in old days
  109. Karma
  110. Memories
  111. A Woman’s Love
  112. American Boys, Hello!
  113. So Long
  114. Upon the Sand
  115. Two (As I sat in my opera box last night)
  116. Motherhood
  117. Fleeing Away
  118. A Curious Story
  119. Australia Answers
  120. A Dream (That was a curious dream; I thought the three)
  121. Midsummer
  122. The Tides
  123. Baby's First Journey
  124. Woman and War
  125. A Waltz-Quadrille
  126. The Tryst
  127. A Girl’s Faith
  128. River and Sea (We stood by the river that swept)
  129. Lost
  130. I Told You
  131. Here and Now
  132. Worn Out
  133. Through Dim Eyes
  134. Existence
  135. Worthy the Name of Sir Knight
  136. Last Love
  137. Retrospection
  138. Sonnets of Sorrow. 2. I know my heart has always been devout
  139. Communism
  140. The Peace of Allah
  141. Womanhood
  142. The Engine
  143. Our Blessings
  144. Old Rhythm and Rhyme
  145. Philosophy
  146. Bohemia
  147. The Duel
  148. Ghosts
  149. A Plea to Peace
  150. Possession
  151. Lost Nation
  152. My Home
  153. Listen!
  154. The Ballot
  155. The House of Life
  156. Life (All in the dark we grope along)
  157. Christ Crucified
  158. A Fisherman’s Baby
  159. God's Majesty
  160. Always at Sea
  161. One by One
  162. Attainment
  163. The Lady of Tears
  164. The Voice of the Crutch
  165. Ad Finem
  166. No Place
  167. A Man’s Ideal
  168. Devils
  169. Smiles
  170. Go Plant a Tree
  171. Guerdon
  172. The Other
  173. Circumstance
  174. A Strain of Music
  175. As You Go Through Life
  176. Together
  177. Thy Ship
  178. Bird of Hope
  179. Smoke
  180. Fame
  181. A Glass of Wine
  182. Introductory Verses
  183. A War Poem
  184. Custer. Book Second
  185. Unrest
  186. Camouflage
  187. I Wonder Why
  188. Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving for the strong armed day)
  189. Sonnets of Sorrow. 12. If, till we met, no Maker had existed
  190. Which
  191. The Rainbow of Promise
  192. Life and I (When Life and I first talked together)
  193. After the Engagement
  194. Burdened
  195. Warning
  196. How the White Rose Came
  197. It May Be
  198. The Black Sheep
  199. Sonnets of Sorrow. 1. Praying for light, and praying all in vain
  200. One of Us Two
  201. Sestina
  202. Answered Prayers
  203. Camp Followers
  204. Life (Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee)
  205. Wait
  206. Rondeau
  207. Before and After
  208. Love’s Coming
  209. Music in the Flat
  210. ’Flowers of France’
  211. Bound and Free
  212. A Lawyer's Romance
  213. Songs from the Turret. 4. Life is a ponderous lesson book, and Fate
  214. If (If I were a raindrop, and you were a leaf)
  215. Begin the Day
  216. I Bide My Time
  217. Artist’s Life
  218. A Maiden’s Secret
  219. The New Love
  220. Their Faces
  221. Inevitable
  222. To Marry Or Not to Marry?
  223. ’Let Us Give Thanks’
  224. Friendship after Love
  225. Song of the Spirit (All the aim of life is just)
  226. Sonnets of Sorrow. 5. You understood the woman side of me
  227. Songs from the Turret. 2. Some day, some beauteous day
  228. Old Times
  229. An Empty Crib
  230. Daft
  231. Independence Ode
  232. Lines from «Maurine» (I’d rather have my verses win)
  233. Three Friends
  234. Life and I (Life and I are lovers, straying)
  235. Lines from “Maurine” (It was a way of Helen's not to sing)
  236. Alone in the House
  237. The Stevedores
  238. An Answer (If all the year was summer-time)
  239. Presumption
  240. The Captive
  241. Æsthetic
  242. The Harp's Song
  243. Be Not Weary
  244. A Wakeful Night
  245. The Undiscovered Country
  246. Let Them Go
  247. Achievement
  248. Platonic
  249. Why
  250. I Will Be Worthy of It
  251. If One Should Dive Deep
  252. The Tulip Bed at Greeley Square
  253. Speak
  254. Poems of the Week
  255. Refuted
  256. Noblesse Oblige
  257. The Search
  258. Jenny Lind
  259. Presentiment
  260. The South
  261. The Pessimist
  262. Shadows
  263. Reunited
  264. A Dream (In the night I dreamed that you had died)
  265. The Play
  266. Unconquered
  267. Widows
  268. God Rules Alway
  269. Sonnets of Sorrow. 17. I who have sung so loud of God's great power
  270. At an Old Drawer
  271. After (After the end that is drawing near)
  272. The Khaki Boys Who Were Not at the Front
  273. Kiss Me
  274. Love is Enough
  275. Completion
  276. You Never Can Tell
  277. Wishes for a Little Girl
  278. The Meeting of the Centuries
  279. Mission
  280. Weather-Vanes
  281. Resolve
  282. On Rainy Days
  283. Prayer (I do not undertake to say)
  284. Death Has Crowned Him a Martyr
  285. In the Night (In the silent midnight watches)
  286. I'm Sorry
  287. Ode to the British Fleet
  288. Answers
  289. Knowledge
  290. Action
  291. Kingdom of Love
  292. The Awakening (I said, I will place my heart, my heart all broken)
  293. Just You
  294. River and Sea (Under the light of the silver moon)
  295. Spectres
  296. The Kettle
  297. No Spring
  298. Shrines
  299. Woman to Man
  300. Sonnets of Sorrow. 16. Oh, to wake once again with that old joy
  301. Best
  302. Momus, God of Laughter
  303. Peek-a-Boo
  304. If I Could Only Weep
  305. Recompense
  306. If (Dear love, if you and I could sail away)
  307. Your Fate
  308. Life’s Harmonies
  309. High Noon
  310. Incomplete
  311. A Man’s Good-Bye
  312. Two Friends
  313. In the Crowd
  314. I Will Be True
  315. At Sunset
  316. Love Much
  317. Idler’s Song
  318. Helena
  319. True Warriors
  320. Sonnets of Sorrow. 4. My earthly friends, however occupied
  321. Jamie
  322. An Afternoon
  323. Relics
  324. The Spur
  325. A Marine Etching
  326. All That Love Asks
  327. A Suggestion
  328. Leudeman’s-on-the-River
  329. Good Night
  330. Passing the Buck
  331. I, Too
  332. False
  333. Contrasts
  334. Sun Shadows
  335. How Like the Sea
  336. New Year (The year like a ship in the distance)
  337. A Burial
  338. I Dream
  339. The Poet’s Theme
  340. Bedlam Town
  341. You Promised Me
  342. Dream Town
  343. All in a Coach and Four
  344. Sonnets of Sorrow. 7. This thought I welcome only, of the train
  345. Ascension
  346. An Inspiration
  347. Sorrow’s Uses
  348. What Happens?
  349. Only in Dreams
  350. A Waft of Perfume
  351. Songs from the Turret. 3. When love is lost, the day sets toward the night
  352. How Salvator Won
  353. Fading (She sits beside the window. All who pass)
  354. Ambition’s Trail
  355. Finis
  356. Coleur de Rose
  357. Penalty
  358. Life's Key
  359. More Fortunate
  360. Sing to Me
  361. Slipping Away
  362. Sonnets of Sorrow. 10. My sick and suffering heart is newly stricken
  363. If Christ Came Questioning
  364. In an Old Art Gallery
  365. Satiety
  366. An Autumn Day
  367. You and To-Day
  368. Lais When Old
  369. The Reticence of the Dead
  370. Earthly Pride
  371. Limitless
  372. At Bay
  373. In the Long Run
  374. Simple Creeds
  375. Go Back
  376. The Ogre Slam-the-Door
  377. The Chosen
  378. Realisation
  379. If (Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let)
  380. The Bridal Eve
  381. September (September comes along the great green way)
  382. A Tumbler of Claret
  383. Over the May Hill
  384. When My Sweet Lady Sings
  385. Is It Done?
  386. Going Away
  387. Veils
  388. The Birth of Jealousy
  389. How Is It?
  390. To the West
  391. Her Love
  392. I Look to Science
  393. Somewhere
  394. Nothing But Stones
  395. The Peace Angel
  396. By-And-Bye
  397. A Waif
  398. The Under-Tone
  399. Met
  400. Assertion
  401. Songs from the Turret. 14. There was a bard all in the olden time
  402. Sonnets of Sorrow. 15. Loving you so I loved the world entire
  403. Inborn
  404. Romney
  405. Those Faded Leaves Were as White as Snow
  406. Love and the Seasons
  407. Sold
  408. Songs from the Turret. 9. Love is the source of all supreme delight
  409. Reminders
  410. The Old Wooden Cradle
  411. Snowed Under
  412. His Mansion
  413. Be Not Attached
  414. Moon and Sea
  415. Old and New
  416. Deep unto Deep Was Calling
  417. America Will Not Turn Back
  418. Songs from the Turret. 1. In the day my thoughts are tender
  419. A Man’s Reverie
  420. The Spirit of Great Joan
  421. Morning Prayer
  422. Love’s Burial
  423. Song of the Aviator
  424. Questioning
  425. An Answer (If one should bring a rose that had been fair)
  426. Sisters of Mine
  427. Pardoned out
  428. Fading (All in the beautiful Autumn weather)
  429. A March Snow
  430. In Faith
  431. Little Queen
  432. Wild Oats
  433. The Optimist
  434. The Deadliest Sin
  435. Mysteries
  436. Not Anchored
  437. Master and Servant
  438. They Say
  439. Two Ghosts
  440. Departed
  441. Searching
  442. Impatience
  443. Desolation
  444. And They Are Dumb
  445. Display
  446. Clara Morris
  447. The Masquerade
  448. The Awakening (OUT of the sleep of earth, with visions rife)
  449. Songs from the Turret. 8. Now do I know how Paradise doth seem
  450. An Old Man to His Sleeping Young Bride
  451. The Mill
  452. The German Fleet
  453. Bridge of Prayer
  454. Low Tide
  455. Songs from the Turret. 11. Three things my ladye seemeth like to me
  456. Poverty and Wealth
  457. Estranged
  458. New Year (Know this! there is nothing can harm you)
  459. Nothing Remains
  460. The Land of Content
  461. About May
  462. Are You Loving Enough?
  463. My Comrade
  464. Lais When Young
  465. Custer. Book Third
  466. Uselessness
  467. The Fire Brigade
  468. Sonnets of Sorrow. 11. What boundless wealth of love!
  469. Angela
  470. Content and Happiness
  471. The Common Link
  472. Songs from the Turret. 5. If I were a rain drop, and you were a leaf
  473. Thanksgiving (We walk on starry fields of white)
  474. Only a Slight Flirtation
  475. An Old Heart
  476. It Does Not Matter
  477. Deceitful Calm
  478. An East Wind
  479. It Matters Only
  480. Lippo
  481. Songs from the Turret. 12. The moon flower, grown from a slip so slender
  482. A Moorish Maid
  483. In Vain
  484. Why the Spring is Late
  485. “Carlos”
  486. The Brave Highland Laddies
  487. Three at the Opera
  488. In France I Saw a Hill
  489. At Forty-Eight
  490. When I Die
  491. It All Will Come out Right
  492. Preaching vs. Practice
  493. Answered
  494. Songs from the Turret. 7. As the king bird feeds on the heart of the bee
  495. Art and Love
  496. The Cry of the People
  497. To an Astrologer
  498. Reform
  499. Why I Love Her
  500. Men of the Sea
  501. Into Space
  502. England, Awake!
  503. Lean Down
  504. The Age of Motored Things
  505. No Rest
  506. Sonnets of Sorrow. 8. At last a dream--at last a dream of you!
  507. The Instructor
  508. Does It Pay?
  509. Arise
  510. He Will Not Come
  511. Thy Love Is Like the Harbour, Safe and Still
  512. The Tendril’s Faith
  513. The Swan of Dijon
  514. Prayer (Give us the open mind, O God)
  515. My Ships
  516. The Blasphemy of Guns
  517. The Earth
  518. Repetition
  519. Over the Banisters
  520. A Song of Home
  521. De Rochambeau
  522. Preparation
  523. Conversion
  524. When the Regiment Came Back
  525. Song of the Spirit (Too sweet and too subtle for pen or for tongue)
  526. Individuality
  527. Attraction
  528. Two Rooms
  529. At the Bridal
  530. The Universal Route
  531. Unanswered Prayers
  532. Custer. Book First
  533. Time’s Hymn of Hate
  534. Lawns
  535. Songs from the Turret. 13. As the waves of the outgoing sea
  536. Only a Glove
  537. The Beautiful Blue Danube
  538. The Bed
  539. The Cusine
  540. Reconstruction
  541. Granite Bay
  542. Not Quite the Same
  543. The Girl of the U.S.A.
  544. He That Hath Ears
  545. What Gain?
  546. Fate and I
  547. Words from the Wind
  548. Sonnets of Sorrow. 21. So many mansions in our Father's house
  549. The Phantom Ball
  550. Mad
  551. The Arrival
  552. One Night
  553. Sonnets of Sorrow. 3. You were so wonderful with quiet faith
  554. Beauty (The search for beauty is the search for God)
  555. Foes
  556. Progress
  557. Come Back Clean
  558. Two Sat Down
  559. Abelard to Heloise
  560. Life's Opera
  561. Ten Thousand Men a Day
  562. Only a Line
  563. The Ocean of Song
  564. Give
  565. What I Have Seen
  566. Songs from the Turret. 6. Time owes me such a heavy debt
  567. All Mad
  568. Warp and Woof
  569. Warned
  570. Sonnets of Sorrow. 19. Full sixteen thousand million souls are here
  571. The West
  572. Trifles
  573. The Law (The tide of love swells in me with such force)
  574. The Ah Goo Tongue
  575. Waiting
  576. Cheating Time
  577. Thought-Magnets
  578. Half Fledged
  579. Aristarchus
  580. Sonnets of Sorrow. 9. From land to land, from coast to bloody coast
  581. Blasé
  582. Only Dreams
  583. Love Will Wane
  584. Geraldine
  585. Never
  586. Daily Talks
  587. The Awakening (I love the tropics, where sun and rain)
  588. Denied
  589. No Comfort
  590. Two Nights
  591. Effect
  592. The Men-Made Gods
  593. Transformation
  594. Love’s Supremacy
  595. Love Thyself Last
  596. Afloat
  597. The Camp Fire
  598. If I Could Utter
  599. Spirit of a Great Control
  600. Praise Day
  601. The Times
  602. Sonnets of Sorrow. 22. Wild sorrow in my bosom has been raging
  603. The Fault of the Age
  604. The Call (All wantonly in hours of joy)
  605. The Reason
  606. What the Rain Saw
  607. The Hammock's Complaint
  608. Earnestness
  609. Reverie
  610. Sonnets of Sorrow. 18. The wise ones tell me that my heart's wild clamour
  611. Art and Heart
  612. But a Dream
  613. Beppo
  614. Why Should We Sigh
  615. Rangoon
  616. Lay It Away
  617. Our Atlas
  618. Two Sunsets
  619. Sonnets of Sorrow. 13. We scaled all heights, we probed all depths of passion
  620. The Song of the Allies
  621. Old
  622. Be Sorry for the Boys a Bit
  623. Beauty (Though thy cheek be fair, as the roses are)
  624. Perished
  625. Aquileia
  626. No Song
  627. The Land of Nowhere
  628. Easter Morn
  629. Unto the End
  630. Songs from the Turret. 10. My ladye's eyes are wishing wells
  631. The Black Charger
  632. Boys' and Girls' Thanksgiving of 1892
  633. An Old Bouquet
  634. The Traveled Man
  635. The Creed to Be
  636. The Law (Life is a Shylock; always it demands)
  637. Art Thou Alive?
  638. At the Hop
  639. Un Rencontre
  640. Burned Out
  641. The Uninvited Guest
  642. Answer
  643. Behold the Earth
  644. I Didn’t Think
  645. They Shall Not Win
  646. Were I Man Grown
  647. The Birth of the Orchid
  648. Mother’s Loss
  649. The Crimes of Peace
  650. Respite
  651. Baby Eva
  652. I Shall Not Forget
  653. Queries
  654. East and West
  655. The Empty Bowl
  656. The Birth of the Opal
  657. My Vision
  658. Come Near
  659. The Hour
  660. Be Not Dismayed
  661. The Unattained
  662. Soul of America
  663. Voyages
  664. In England
  665. Acquaintance
  666. All the World
  667. Awakened!
  668. The Chain
  669. So Long in Coming
  670. New and Old
  671. The Punished
  672. The Silent Tragedy
  673. The Cherub Year
  674. The Plow of God
  675. Helen of Troy
  676. Alcohol's Requiem upon Prof. P.F.K., a Gifted man, Who Died a Victim to Strong Drink
  677. Belgium
  678. The Breaking of Chains
  679. Ye Agents
  680. Uncontrolled
  681. After (Over the din of battle)
  682. The Cure
  683. Two Junes
  684. The Belle of the Season
  685. Secret Thoughts
  686. I Am Running Forth to Meet You
  687. The Last Dance
  688. Applause
  689. Artist and Man
  690. At Set of Sun
  691. At the Fork of the Road
  692. Battle Hymn of the Women
  693. Over the Alley
  694. Five Kisses
  695. Returned Birds
  696. Our Petty Cares
  697. Little Blue Hood
  698. The World Grows Better
  699. Heart's Ease
  700. St. Dunstan's
  701. Astrolabius
  702. The Giddy Girl
  703. Appreciation
  704. Asleep
  705. At Fontainebleau
  706. Beauty Making
  707. Under the Willow
  708. A Bachelor to a Married Flirt
  709. Intermediary
  710. Opportunity
  711. Worldly Wisdom
  712. After?
  713. Assistance
  714. At the Boro Boedoer
  715. Be Not Content
  716. The Coming Man
  717. Conquest
  718. Sonnets of Sorrow. 14. Full many a roadway that we trod was rough
  719. Sonnets of Sorrow. 20. There always was a longing in your heart
  720. Affirm
  721. Our Lives
  722. The Women
  723. Victory-1918
  724. The Beautiful Land of Nod
  725. The Beggar Cat
  726. The Belle's Soliloquy
  727. Bleak Weather
  728. Bless the Babies
  729. Sapphires
  730. As by Fire
  731. At Eleusis
  732. The Barbarous Chief
  733. Belief

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