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

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