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Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The Pessimist


The pessimistic locust, last to leaf,
Though all the world is glad, still talks of grief.



Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler Wilcox's other poems:
  1. The Birth of the Opal
  2. The Chain
  3. At Forty-Eight
  4. Artist and Man
  5. As by Fire


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Madison Cawein The Pessimist ("Here is a tale for uncles and old aunties")
  • Pelham Wodehouse The Pessimist ("They tell me that the weather’s fair")
  • Benjamin King The Pessimist ("Nîthing tî dî but wîrk")

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