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
breaks fear heart sworn twin
Fear is the twin of Faith's sworn foe, Distrust.If one breaks in your heart the other must.
gives wide
This is the way of it, wide world over,One is beloved, and one is the lover,One gives and the other receives.
breaks earth endless goes heart learns life rise sad sun
This is the way of it, sad earth over,The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover,And the other learns to forget.For what is the use of endless sorrow?Though the sun goes down, it will rise to-morrow;And life is not over yet.
helps man succeed
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,But no man can help you die.
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.
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.
brief hundred known lived men passion
So young, and yet I have had all of life.Why, men have lived to see a hundred years,Who have not known the rapture, joy, and strifeOf my brief youth, its passion and its tears.
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. . . .
straight watch 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.
gate goes golden heart memory walks
Back on its golden hingesThe gate of Memory swings,And my heart goes into the gardenAnd walks with the olden things.
lies life unfinished work
Think your life was made for dreaming, nothing more,When God's work lies all unfinished at your door?
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.
eternal final good great work
I know there are no errors,In the great Eternal plan,And all things work togetherFor the final good of man.
grow means soul suffer whatever
I know that the soul is aidedSometimes by the heart's unrest,And to grow means often to suffer --But whatever is--is best.