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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The Rating of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems

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

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