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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The Rating of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems

  1. The Actor
  2. Winter Rain
  3. I Love You
  4. Love’s Language
  5. Angel or Demon
  6. The World's Need
  7. The Traveller
  8. The Snowflake
  9. Dawn
  10. December
  11. The Year
  12. Worth Living
  13. I Am
  14. As We Look Back
  15. October
  16. Which Are You?
  17. Christmas Fancies
  18. A Song of Life
  19. Wishing
  20. “It Might Have Been”
  21. The Lullaby
  22. Two
  23. Absence
  24. A Dirge
  25. Under the Moon
  26. You Will Forget Me
  27. A Golden Day
  28. Dear Motherland of France
  29. Found
  30. A Ballade of the Unborn Dead
  31. Friendship
  32. A Maiden to Her Mirror
  33. Love
  34. Beyond
  35. A Song of Faith
  36. A Crushed Leaf
  37. A Rainy Night
  38. Happiness
  39. Will (There is no chance, no destiny, no fate)
  40. Life and Death
  41. A Lovers’ Quarrel
  42. A Woman’s Hand
  43. I Told You
  44. Æsthetic
  45. Life’s Scars
  46. Advice
  47. A Woman’s Love
  48. Night
  49. A Grey Mood
  50. Ad Finem
  51. Father
  52. A Curious Story
  53. Love Song
  54. Then and Now
  55. A Leaf
  56. Parting
  57. The Message
  58. Grief
  59. On Rainy Days
  60. A Man’s Good-Bye
  61. Hidden Gems
  62. Words
  63. Bird of Hope
  64. A War Poem
  65. A Reminiscence
  66. The Word
  67. The Lady of Tears
  68. A Man’s Ideal
  69. A Fallen Leaf
  70. Australia Answers
  71. All for Me
  72. If (Dear love, if you and I could sail away)
  73. All Roads That Lead To God Are Good
  74. A Waltz-Quadrille
  75. Delilah
  76. As You Go Through Life
  77. I Will Be Worthy of It
  78. A Marine Etching
  79. A Maiden’s Secret
  80. God's Majesty
  81. Change
  82. Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving for the strong armed day)
  83. River and Sea (We stood by the river that swept)
  84. Your Fate
  85. A Strain of Music
  86. Song of the Spirit (All the aim of life is just)
  87. After the Engagement
  88. Worn Out
  89. The Question
  90. Wait
  91. Songs from the Turret. 4. Life is a ponderous lesson book, and Fate
  92. Fame
  93. Comrades
  94. A Plea to Peace
  95. Moon and Sea
  96. Conversation
  97. Now
  98. A Fancy
  99. Dream Town
  100. A Girl’s Faith
  101. Discontent
  102. Wishes
  103. If (If I were a raindrop, and you were a leaf)
  104. A Baby in the House
  105. A Glass of Wine
  106. Philosophy
  107. I'm Sorry
  108. The Wish
  109. Bound and Free
  110. Baby's First Journey
  111. At the Window
  112. Bohemia
  113. The River
  114. War
  115. A Dream (That was a curious dream; I thought the three)
  116. Contentment
  117. A Dream (In the night I dreamed that you had died)
  118. Existence
  119. Just You
  120. My Home
  121. At an Old Drawer
  122. Always at Sea
  123. A Wakeful Night
  124. The New Love
  125. Smoke
  126. Listen!
  127. After the Battles Are Over
  128. Go Plant a Tree
  129. Refuted
  130. Will (You will be what you will to be)
  131. Midsummer
  132. One of Us Two
  133. All That Love Asks
  134. My Ships
  135. Noblesse Oblige
  136. Attainment
  137. An Autumn Reverie
  138. Lean Down
  139. A March Snow
  140. Noon
  141. The Past
  142. Nirvana
  143. Ambition’s Trail
  144. The Voices of the City
  145. Life and I (When Life and I first talked together)
  146. The Other
  147. A Man’s Reverie
  148. The Night
  149. Unconquered
  150. A Waft of Perfume
  151. Inspiration
  152. Arise
  153. A Fisherman’s Baby
  154. The Queen’s Last Ride
  155. We Two
  156. The Voices of the People
  157. Possession
  158. Coleur de Rose
  159. Courage
  160. Old Times
  161. Life Is a Privilege
  162. Fading (She sits beside the window. All who pass)
  163. In the Long Run
  164. About May
  165. Action
  166. Kiss Me
  167. Sonnets of Sorrow. 6. My love, my love, how often in old days
  168. Sonnets of Sorrow. 2. I know my heart has always been devout
  169. I Will Be True
  170. Guerdon
  171. Communism
  172. You Never Can Tell
  173. An Answer (If all the year was summer-time)
  174. Fleeing Away
  175. Here and Now
  176. Two (As I sat in my opera box last night)
  177. Which
  178. Before and After
  179. A Burial
  180. Canada
  181. Achievement
  182. True Warriors
  183. A Suggestion
  184. Friendship after Love
  185. No Place
  186. The Ship and the Boat
  187. The Tides
  188. River and Sea (Under the light of the silver moon)
  189. Begin the Day
  190. Earthly Pride
  191. So Long
  192. Rondeau
  193. The Statue
  194. An Old Song
  195. Love’s Coming
  196. Life (All in the dark we grope along)
  197. Christ Crucified
  198. After (After the end that is drawing near)
  199. Alone in the House
  200. The Pessimist
  201. A Song of Home
  202. The Ladder
  203. Sorrow’s Uses
  204. In the Garden
  205. An Empty Crib
  206. Sestina
  207. Shrines
  208. Together
  209. Their Faces
  210. Worth While
  211. Snowed Under
  212. Mysteries
  213. The Voice of the Crutch
  214. Our Blessings
  215. Artist’s Life
  216. Recompense
  217. The Ballot
  218. Satiety
  219. Why
  220. The Duel
  221. Life and I (Life and I are lovers, straying)
  222. Smiles
  223. Love Much
  224. Sing to Me
  225. American Boys, Hello!
  226. The Awakening (OUT of the sleep of earth, with visions rife)
  227. If Christ Came Questioning
  228. Poverty and Wealth
  229. An Inspiration
  230. The Mill
  231. If I Could Only Weep
  232. Illusion
  233. A Lawyer's Romance
  234. Old Rhythm and Rhyme
  235. Pardoned out
  236. Love is Enough
  237. Be Not Weary
  238. Penalty
  239. Jenny Lind
  240. I Look to Science
  241. Last Love
  242. Independence Ode
  243. Love Will Wane
  244. Old and New
  245. The Reason
  246. Incomplete
  247. Only in Dreams
  248. The Kettle
  249. I Dream
  250. Justice
  251. Songs from the Turret. 2. Some day, some beauteous day
  252. The Men-Made Gods
  253. Does It Pay?
  254. Joy
  255. A Waif
  256. Realisation
  257. America Will Not Turn Back
  258. Slipping Away
  259. Resolve
  260. At the Hop
  261. Jamie
  262. Death Has Crowned Him a Martyr
  263. Womanhood
  264. The Earth
  265. The Engine
  266. Never
  267. Motherhood
  268. Platonic
  269. A Tumbler of Claret
  270. All Mad
  271. Men of the Sea
  272. Over the May Hill
  273. New Year (Know this! there is nothing can harm you)
  274. Mirage
  275. The Birth of Jealousy
  276. An Old Man to His Sleeping Young Bride
  277. Fading (All in the beautiful Autumn weather)
  278. Are You Loving Enough?
  279. High Noon
  280. The Captive
  281. Good Night
  282. Thy Ship
  283. Prayer (I do not undertake to say)
  284. The Sonnet
  285. Through Dim Eyes
  286. Lais When Old
  287. Afloat
  288. No Rest
  289. September (September comes along the great green way)
  290. You Promised Me
  291. Lost
  292. Music in the Flat
  293. Impatience
  294. Somewhere
  295. He Will Not Come
  296. Warning
  297. Woman and War
  298. Contrasts
  299. Why I Love Her
  300. If One Should Dive Deep
  301. Knowledge
  302. Lines from “Maurine” (It was a way of Helen's not to sing)
  303. Worthy the Name of Sir Knight
  304. Presumption
  305. Individuality
  306. Momus, God of Laughter
  307. Art and Love
  308. An Old Heart
  309. Thought-Magnets
  310. Ascension
  311. The Rainbow of Promise
  312. The Reticence of the Dead
  313. Sonnets of Sorrow. 19. Full sixteen thousand million souls are here
  314. Songs from the Turret. 5. If I were a rain drop, and you were a leaf
  315. New and Old
  316. What Happens?
  317. Speak
  318. It May Be
  319. Unrest
  320. The Fire Brigade
  321. Songs from the Turret. 9. Love is the source of all supreme delight
  322. I Bide My Time
  323. Introductory Verses
  324. Conversion
  325. Circumstance
  326. ’Let Us Give Thanks’
  327. In the Crowd
  328. To Marry Or Not to Marry?
  329. False
  330. God Rules Alway
  331. Display
  332. Her Love
  333. It All Will Come out Right
  334. Lines from «Maurine» (I’d rather have my verses win)
  335. Peek-a-Boo
  336. Simple Creeds
  337. I Wonder Why
  338. The South
  339. Camp Followers
  340. How Is It?
  341. Uselessness
  342. Retrospection
  343. Fate and I
  344. Sonnets of Sorrow. 12. If, till we met, no Maker had existed
  345. Memories
  346. Thanksgiving (We walk on starry fields of white)
  347. Foes
  348. Idler’s Song
  349. Life's Key
  350. Custer. Book Second
  351. Inevitable
  352. Devils
  353. It Matters Only
  354. The Masquerade
  355. They Say
  356. Sonnets of Sorrow. 15. Loving you so I loved the world entire
  357. Daily Talks
  358. His Mansion
  359. In Faith
  360. Little Queen
  361. It Does Not Matter
  362. An East Wind
  363. Veils
  364. The New Commandment
  365. Shadows
  366. Sonnets of Sorrow. 5. You understood the woman side of me
  367. Songs from the Turret. 3. When love is lost, the day sets toward the night
  368. The Spur
  369. New Year (The year like a ship in the distance)
  370. Is It Done?
  371. Ghosts
  372. At Bay
  373. Morning Prayer
  374. Answered
  375. Denied
  376. Blind Sorrow
  377. Cheating Time
  378. An Old Bouquet
  379. Those Faded Leaves Were as White as Snow
  380. Widows
  381. An Afternoon
  382. When the Regiment Came Back
  383. Warned
  384. Two Ghosts
  385. The Peace Angel
  386. By-And-Bye
  387. Daft
  388. Preaching vs. Practice
  389. Answered Prayers
  390. Kingdom of Love
  391. Sun Shadows
  392. The Bridal Eve
  393. Three at the Opera
  394. The Old Wooden Cradle
  395. England, Awake!
  396. Sapphires
  397. Sonnets of Sorrow. 10. My sick and suffering heart is newly stricken
  398. Songs from the Turret. 13. As the waves of the outgoing sea
  399. Sonnets of Sorrow. 17. I who have sung so loud of God's great power
  400. How the White Rose Came
  401. Sisters of Mine
  402. Going Away
  403. Beppo
  404. Reunited
  405. Geraldine
  406. Five Kisses
  407. Why Should We Sigh
  408. Content and Happiness
  409. Lost Nation
  410. They Shall Not Win
  411. Repetition
  412. Karma
  413. Songs from the Turret. 10. My ladye's eyes are wishing wells
  414. Attraction
  415. Preparation
  416. No Comfort
  417. Burned Out
  418. The Deadliest Sin
  419. The Black Sheep
  420. One by One
  421. Life (Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee)
  422. Sonnets of Sorrow. 8. At last a dream--at last a dream of you!
  423. Words from the Wind
  424. Sonnets of Sorrow. 7. This thought I welcome only, of the train
  425. Ten Thousand Men a Day
  426. Camouflage
  427. Not Anchored
  428. Three Friends
  429. The Swan of Dijon
  430. In France I Saw a Hill
  431. No Spring
  432. Poems of the Week
  433. All in a Coach and Four
  434. A Moorish Maid
  435. In an Old Art Gallery
  436. The Peace of Allah
  437. When My Sweet Lady Sings
  438. The Search
  439. If (Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let)
  440. After (Over the din of battle)
  441. I, Too
  442. And They Are Dumb
  443. Mission
  444. Clara Morris
  445. Sonnets of Sorrow. 4. My earthly friends, however occupied
  446. Not Quite the Same
  447. Only a Slight Flirtation
  448. Mad
  449. Deceitful Calm
  450. Only a Glove
  451. An Autumn Day
  452. Custer. Book First
  453. The Stevedores
  454. Into Space
  455. Life’s Harmonies
  456. Only a Line
  457. To an Astrologer
  458. The House of Life
  459. Lawns
  460. An Answer (If one should bring a rose that had been fair)
  461. Leudeman’s-on-the-River
  462. No Song
  463. The Creed to Be
  464. Burdened
  465. Give
  466. Reconstruction
  467. What I Have Seen
  468. Easter Morn
  469. Sonnets of Sorrow. 1. Praying for light, and praying all in vain
  470. Sonnets of Sorrow. 16. Oh, to wake once again with that old joy
  471. In the Night (In the silent midnight watches)
  472. Life's Opera
  473. Mother’s Loss
  474. Desolation
  475. The West
  476. More Fortunate
  477. Spectres
  478. Come Near
  479. Passing the Buck
  480. Bedlam Town
  481. Questioning
  482. Earnestness
  483. Love and the Seasons
  484. The Common Link
  485. The Instructor
  486. Romney
  487. How Like the Sea
  488. The Brave Highland Laddies
  489. Go Back
  490. The Traveled Man
  491. Two Nights
  492. Woman to Man
  493. You and To-Day
  494. Effect
  495. Song of the Spirit (Too sweet and too subtle for pen or for tongue)
  496. Love’s Supremacy
  497. Love’s Burial
  498. Bridge of Prayer
  499. Thy Love Is Like the Harbour, Safe and Still
  500. ’Flowers of France’
  501. Assertion
  502. Two Junes
  503. Songs from the Turret. 12. The moon flower, grown from a slip so slender
  504. Angela
  505. If I Could Utter
  506. Completion
  507. One Night
  508. I Didn’t Think
  509. Custer. Book Third
  510. He That Hath Ears
  511. Let Them Go
  512. Wishes for a Little Girl
  513. Limitless
  514. Finis
  515. So Long in Coming
  516. Aquileia
  517. The Meeting of the Centuries
  518. Progress
  519. Over the Alley
  520. Deep unto Deep Was Calling
  521. Estranged
  522. Best
  523. The Tulip Bed at Greeley Square
  524. De Rochambeau
  525. Helena
  526. Aristarchus
  527. Sonnets of Sorrow. 11. What boundless wealth of love!
  528. Only Dreams
  529. Reminders
  530. Transformation
  531. The Spirit of Great Joan
  532. Answers
  533. Nothing But Stones
  534. Abelard to Heloise
  535. Songs from the Turret. 11. Three things my ladye seemeth like to me
  536. Sonnets of Sorrow. 9. From land to land, from coast to bloody coast
  537. Sonnets of Sorrow. 13. We scaled all heights, we probed all depths of passion
  538. Over the Banisters
  539. Wild Oats
  540. Old
  541. Two Friends
  542. The Tendril’s Faith
  543. The Poet’s Theme
  544. Rangoon
  545. Ode to the British Fleet
  546. Be Not Dismayed
  547. The World Grows Better
  548. Heart's Ease
  549. The Age of Motored Things
  550. Weather-Vanes
  551. Master and Servant
  552. Reform
  553. Songs from the Turret. 14. There was a bard all in the olden time
  554. Returned Birds
  555. Lippo
  556. Songs from the Turret. 8. Now do I know how Paradise doth seem
  557. At the Bridal
  558. The Tryst
  559. The Unattained
  560. The Harp's Song
  561. Relics
  562. The Camp Fire
  563. Sonnets of Sorrow. 3. You were so wonderful with quiet faith
  564. My Vision
  565. “Carlos”
  566. Unanswered Prayers
  567. The Land of Nowhere
  568. Songs from the Turret. 1. In the day my thoughts are tender
  569. Sonnets of Sorrow. 22. Wild sorrow in my bosom has been raging
  570. Lay It Away
  571. The Under-Tone
  572. The Play
  573. The Undiscovered Country
  574. Uncontrolled
  575. Prayer (Give us the open mind, O God)
  576. What Gain?
  577. Respite
  578. Secret Thoughts
  579. Love Thyself Last
  580. Come Back Clean
  581. Time’s Hymn of Hate
  582. Nothing Remains
  583. The Land of Content
  584. Searching
  585. Lais When Young
  586. The Khaki Boys Who Were Not at the Front
  587. The Ocean of Song
  588. Songs from the Turret. 6. Time owes me such a heavy debt
  589. The Blasphemy of Guns
  590. To the West
  591. Low Tide
  592. Spirit of a Great Control
  593. Departed
  594. Inborn
  595. The Law (The tide of love swells in me with such force)
  596. Half Fledged
  597. Little Blue Hood
  598. Perished
  599. Voyages
  600. Sonnets of Sorrow. 21. So many mansions in our Father's house
  601. My Comrade
  602. The Song of the Allies
  603. The Optimist
  604. The Uninvited Guest
  605. The Belle of the Season
  606. The Arrival
  607. Presentiment
  608. The Ogre Slam-the-Door
  609. The Law (Life is a Shylock; always it demands)
  610. Astrolabius
  611. The German Fleet
  612. Trifles
  613. Songs from the Turret. 7. As the king bird feeds on the heart of the bee
  614. Warp and Woof
  615. Our Petty Cares
  616. The Universal Route
  617. Sold
  618. What the Rain Saw
  619. The Times
  620. Song of the Aviator
  621. Under the Willow
  622. Sonnets of Sorrow. 18. The wise ones tell me that my heart's wild clamour
  623. Two Rooms
  624. The Silent Tragedy
  625. The Cry of the People
  626. Our Atlas
  627. Sonnets of Sorrow. 14. Full many a roadway that we trod was rough
  628. Sonnets of Sorrow. 20. There always was a longing in your heart
  629. Met
  630. The Hammock's Complaint
  631. The Girl of the U.S.A.
  632. The Ah Goo Tongue
  633. Two Sat Down
  634. St. Dunstan's
  635. Reverie
  636. Two Sunsets
  637. Unto the End
  638. The Cusine
  639. The Cure
  640. Ye Agents
  641. The Hour
  642. The Punished
  643. Un Rencontre
  644. The Awakening (I said, I will place my heart, my heart all broken)
  645. The Crimes of Peace
  646. Soul of America
  647. The Breaking of Chains
  648. Alcohol's Requiem upon Prof. P.F.K., a Gifted man, Who Died a Victim to Strong Drink
  649. Beauty (Though thy cheek be fair, as the roses are)
  650. Appreciation
  651. Helen of Troy
  652. Victory-1918
  653. Waiting
  654. The Beautiful Blue Danube
  655. The Chain
  656. All the World
  657. At Sunset
  658. The Beggar Cat
  659. Acquaintance
  660. America
  661. I Am Running Forth to Meet You
  662. Climbing
  663. Artist and Man
  664. Belief
  665. The Coming Man
  666. How Salvator Won
  667. In Vain
  668. When I Die
  669. Art Thou Alive?
  670. At Set of Sun
  671. At the Boro Boedoer
  672. Awakened!
  673. The Beautiful Land of Nod
  674. The Belle's Soliloquy
  675. Boys' and Girls' Thanksgiving of 1892
  676. The Phantom Ball
  677. Opportunity
  678. The Women
  679. Battle Hymn of the Women
  680. Be Not Content
  681. Beauty (The search for beauty is the search for God)
  682. A Bachelor to a Married Flirt
  683. The Cherub Year
  684. East and West
  685. At the Fork of the Road
  686. Beauty Making
  687. The Birth of the Orchid
  688. Art and Heart
  689. The Last Dance
  690. Were I Man Grown
  691. The Fault of the Age
  692. After?
  693. As by Fire
  694. Asleep
  695. Babyland
  696. The Bed
  697. Behold the Earth
  698. The Black Charger
  699. Bless the Babies
  700. At Forty-Eight
  701. In England
  702. The Plow of God
  703. Worldly Wisdom
  704. Why the Spring is Late
  705. The Empty Bowl
  706. The Giddy Girl
  707. Granite Bay
  708. Be Sorry for the Boys a Bit
  709. Bleak Weather
  710. Baby Eva
  711. I Shall Not Forget
  712. Our Lives
  713. Applause
  714. Answer
  715. At Fontainebleau
  716. The Call (All wantonly in hours of joy)
  717. Be Not Attached
  718. Belgium
  719. The Birth of the Opal
  720. The Black Man's Claim
  721. Blasé
  722. Conquest
  723. Affirm
  724. Intermediary
  725. Praise Day
  726. But a Dream
  727. The Chosen
  728. The Awakening (I love the tropics, where sun and rain)
  729. The Barbarous Chief
  730. Queries
  731. Assistance
  732. At Eleusis

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