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

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