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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other,That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.... Ella Wheeler Wilcox {view}
- 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.... Ella Wheeler Wilcox {view}
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.... Ella Wheeler Wilcox {view}
- 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.... Ella Wheeler Wilcox {view}
- When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.... Ella Wheeler Wilcox {view}
- Far from the city's dust and heat,I get but sounds and odors sweet.Who can wonder I love to stay,Week after week, here hidden away,In this sly nook that I love the best --This little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?... Ella Wheeler Wilcox {view}
- Give us that grand word "woman" once again, And let's have done with "lady"; one's a term Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys... Ella Wheeler Wilcox {view}