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

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