Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Power (1901)

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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

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We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way....

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We must not force events, but rather make
The heart soil ready for their coming, as
The earth spreads carpets for the feet of Spring.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And let its meaning permeate
Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

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We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.

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Oh, dark, inevitable and awful day,
When one of us must go and one must stay!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox