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

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