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

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