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
burden curse dream hug laughing lie rise sheet sigh thousand until weeping year
What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.
command forth though thy
Though desolateThe way may seem, command thy fate.Send forth thy thought -Create--CREATE!
against chain holds independence land mighty protest therefore
Therefore I do protest against the boastOf independence in this mighty land.Call no chain strong, which holds one rusted link.Call no land free, that holds one fettered slave.
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.
dreaming hours idly precious sit vanished
Why sit ye idly dreaming all the day,While the golden, precious hours flit away?See you not the day is waning, waning fast?That the morn's already vanished in the past?
fair lost pages record remain smiles turn waste white
Waste no tearsUpon the blotted record of lost years,But turn the leaf, and smile, oh! smile, to seeThe fair white pages that remain for thee.
pass square task whatever
Whatever the task that comes your way,Just take it as part of your luck.Look it right square in the eyes, and say,""This is MY task, I'll do it to-day"":Don't pass the buck.
cowards men sin
To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men.
dark endless joy leads light today
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
care mould rank
When we tell about our cause,Politicians only smile;While they mould and make our laws,What care they for rank or file?
creative force great majesty might universe
When the great universe was wroughtTo might and majesty from naught,The all creative force was -THOUGHT.