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
baby bought dearly echo rode sorrow white
Somebody's sorrow is making me weep:I know not her name, but I echo her cry,For the dearly bought baby she longed so to keep,The baby that rode to its long-lasting sleepIn the little white hearse that went rumbling by.
found happiness love spirit
So much of love her spirit had,She found an ever-flowing springOf happiness in everything.
dark gain learn path
All in the dark we grope along,And if we go amissWe learn at least which path is wrong,And there is gain in this.
answer dreams flowers growing idle pass ruin shall
Then arise, O idle dreamer! Dreams are sweet,But better flowers are growing at your feet.If you crush, or pass unheeding, idle friend,You shall answer for their ruin in the end.
alone below dead dream earth fear full god great heaven judgement nobody seemed sky space view
Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the people,Oh Lord" I said, "the earth below and the sky overheadand the dead that I once knew?""That was a dream," God smiledand said: "The dream that seemed tobe true; there were no peopleliving or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead,there was only myself in you.""Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,"meeting you here in this way?For I have sinned, I know full welland is there heaven and is there hell,and is this Judgement Day?""Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.There are no such things as fear and sin;there is no you . . . you never have been.There is nothing at all but me.
delay gods impatient ready rises spirit wait
Be not impatient in delay,But wait as one who understands;When spirit rises and commands,The gods are ready to obey.
along pass remember scatter seeds wish
Do you wish the world were happy?Then remember day by dayJust to scatter seeds of kindnessAs you pass along the way. . . .
call choosing led needs souls
Some souls there are that needs must tasteOf wrong, ere choosing right;We should not call those years a wasteWhich led us to the light.
life strong sweet
Life hurries pasttoo strong to stop;too sweet to loose.
moments till wasted work zeal
If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.
changing content door four seasons thousands wandering ways
The year's four changing seasons broughtTo her own door what thousands soughtIn wandering ways and did not find -Diversion and content of mind.
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!
force granite human offspring walls
The human Will, that force unseen,The offspring of a deathless Soul,Can hew the way to any goal,Though walls of granite intervene.
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.