Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 November 1850
CountryUnited States of America
wise wisdom wish
Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true...
wise wisdom fate
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.
wise wisdom luxury
Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.
thanksgiving moments praise
We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
mistake making-mistakes
God sent us here to make mistakes
country song appreciation
Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be...
appreciation night sea
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair...
appreciation fall fate
Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
lost pens misused
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
moving world
... love moves the world along.
love-is duty knows
Love is the only duty that we know ...
capacity
Trust in your own untried capacity.
climbs
Always continue to climb.
sad morning faces
I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place...