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

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