Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Passion (1883)

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Give us that grand word 'woman' once again,
And let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term
Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm,
Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen;
And one's a word for lackeys.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe,
Needs friendship's solid masonwork below.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh you who read some song I have sung
What know you of the soul from whence it sprung

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The world is a vaporous jest at best,
Tossed off by the gods in laughter;
And a cruel attempt at wit were it.
If nothing better came after.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talk health. The dreary, never-ending tale
Of mortal maladies is worn and stale;
You cannot charm or interest or please
By harping on that minor chord disease.
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The splendid discontent of God
With chaos, made the world,
...
And from the discontent of man
The world's best progress springs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Let there be many windows to your soul,
... Not the narrow pane
Of one poor creed can catch the radiant rays
That shine from countless sources.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Look for the places that are smooth and clear.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
As the dead year is clasped by a dead December,
So let your dead sins with your dead days lie.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
For life is a poem to leisurely read,
And the joy of a journey lies not in its speed.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'. I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.

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One of us two must sometime face existence
Alone with memories that but sharpen pain.
...
One of us two shall find all life, all beauty,
All joy on earth, a tale forever done;
Shall know henceforth that life means only duty.
O God! O God! have pity on that one!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Passion is what the sun feels for the earth
When harvests ripen into golden birth.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox