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
command forth though thy
Though desolateThe way may seem, command thy fate.Send forth thy thought -Create--CREATE!
love sorrows souls waters
Our souls should be vessels receivingThe waters of love for relievingThe sorrows of men.
adversity dead earth easy flows goes heart life man praises shines smile smiles test worth
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
followers looks taken tempting turns
Who is the wise? Not he who from the startWith Wisdom's followers has taken part;But he who looks in Folly's tempting eyes,And turns away, perceiving her disguise.
dwells lets proves puts sinews splendid strength strong
Who is the strong? Not he who puts to testHis sinews with the strong and proves the best;But he who dwells where weaklings congregate,And never lets his splendid strength abate.
grace lent looking menial
Such menial duties; but her wayOf looking at them lent a graceTo things the world deemed commonplace.
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.
learn men
Live to learn, and learn to liveIf you want to give men knowledgeYou must get, ere you give.
creative force great majesty might universe
When the great universe was wroughtTo might and majesty from naught,The all creative force was -THOUGHT.
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?
glad happy hours moments music ought silent
We ought to make the moments notesOf happy glad Thanksgiving;The hours and days, a silent praiseOf music we are living.
cowards men sin
To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men.
file halls narrow pleasure room
There is room in the halls of pleasureFor a long and lordly train,But one by one we must all file onThrough the narrow aisles of pain.
dark endless joy leads light today
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.