Ella Wilcox
Ella Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcoxwas an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 November 1850
alight along bears bosom church float lamp love million pointing soul though thousand
The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;Not a church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;And the lamp of my soul is alight with love for life, and the world, and the Giver.
best brown dust far hidden house love sly sounds wonder
Far from the city's dust and heat,I get but sounds and odors sweet.Who can wonder I love to stay,Week after week, here hidden away,In this sly nook that I love the best --This little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?
chain continued earth endless finite heaven left link love missing
Between the finite and the infiniteThe missing link of Love has left a void.Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will joinIn one continued chain of endless life.
found happiness love spirit
So much of love her spirit had,She found an ever-flowing springOf happiness in everything.
east folks life love sad truth west
There's one sad truth in life I've foundWhile journeying east and west -The only folks we really woundAre those we love the best.
alone faith humblest love powers three time trio
Love, that outreaches to the humblest things;Work that is glad, in what it does and brings;And faith that soars upon unwearied wings.Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.Love, Work, and Faith -- these three alone are great.
deal flatter fleeting full love please scarcely
We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.
above bells christmas faces fields hear lands loves places ringing sweet swinging vacant voices
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.
love passionate
Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other,That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.
love sorrows souls waters
Our souls should be vessels receivingThe waters of love for relievingThe sorrows of men.
learn love unwritten
Look in; and learn the wrong, and right,From your own soul's unwritten laws.And when you question, or demur,Let Love be your Interpreter.
earth praises shines smile worth
...the smile that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.
best chaos discontent god man progress splendid springs
The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs
cannot dam fail knows river seeking
The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You will be what you will to be!