Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox sayings, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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There is no success without unity.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Life is a privilege / Its youthful days shine with the radiance of continuous Mays.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Life is a ponderous lesson-book, and Fate / The teacher. When I came to love's fair leaf / My teacher turned the page and bade me wait. / 'Learn first,' she said, 'love's grief'; / And o'er and o'er through many a long tomorrow / She kept me conning that sad page of sorrow.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Love much. There is no waste in freely giving; / More blessed is it, even, than to receive. / He who loves much alone finds life worth living: / Love on, through doubt and darkness; and believe / There is no thing which Love may not achieve.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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God, what a joy it is to plant a tree / And from the sallow earth to watch it rise / Lifting its emerald branches to the skiesElla Wheeler Wilcox
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Its strength and glory waxing with each spring / Yes, 'tis a goodly, and a gladsome thing / To plant a tree.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Nature has many marvels; but a tree / Seems more than marvellous. It is divine / So generous, so tender, so benign.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Singing across the meadow, striding down through the corn. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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In his great cushioned chair by the fender / An old man sits dreaming to-night, / His withered hands, licked by the tender, / Warm rays of the red anthracite, / Are folded before him, all listless; / His dim eyes are fixed on the blaze, / While over him sweeps the resistless / Flood-tide of old days.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Lightly they hold him and lightly they sway him / Soft as a pillow are somebody's arms / Down he goes slowly, ever so lowly / Over the rim of the cradle they lay him / Baby's first journey is free from alarms.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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In grandmamma's kitchen, things got in a riot / The cream in a pot on the shelf / Where everything always seemed peaceful and quiet / Got whipped, for I heard it myself.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I do not ask for splendour / To crown my daily lot / But this I ask – a kitchen / Where the kettles always hot.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Everything is right at hand and money freely flows / And hired help is all about, just listenin’ to my call / But I miss the yellow almanac off my old kitchen wall.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Half-way unto the end—the week's high noon. / The morning hours do speed away so soon! / And, when the noon is reached, however bright, / Instinctively we look toward the night.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Tie up the broken threads, and let us go, / Like reunited lovers, hand in hand, / Back, and yet onward, to the sunny land / Of our To Be, which was our Long Ago.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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A little rhyme about a heart that's bleeding— / Of lonely hours and sorrow's unrelief: / I smiled at first; but there came with the readingElla Wheeler Wilcox
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The old-fashioned verse with intentional rhymes. / And quite out of date, too, is rhythmical metre; / The critics / declare it an insult to art. / But oh! the sweet swing of it, oh! the clear ring of it, / Oh! the great pulse of it, / right from the heart, / Art or no art.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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And then on the gray granite precipice burst; / And I knew as I counted, while other waves mounted, / I knew the tenth billow would rhyme with the firstElla Wheeler Wilcox
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Snugly creep and fall asleep, / O come, my baby, do; / Creep into my lap, and with a nap, / We'll break the day in two.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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A lustrous rocket, rising out of space. Behold the signal of the foe,' cried one.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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When this full throat shall wattle fold on fold, / Like some ripe peach left drying on a wallElla Wheeler Wilcox
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"As Monday goes, so goes the week," dames say. Refreshed, renewed, use well the initial day. And see! thy neighbour already seeks his labour. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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It is 'Liquor Dealer.' It means soul stealer.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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My friends,' said the Owl, with a look most wise, / 'The Eagle is soaring too near the skies, / In a way that is quite improper; / Yet the world is praising her, so I'm told, / And I think her actions have grown so bold / That some of us ought to stop her.'Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I am quite convinced,' said Crow, with a caw, / 'That the Eagle minds no moral law, / She's a most unruly creature.' / 'She's an ugly thing,' piped Canary Bird; / 'Some call her handsome — it's so absurd — / She hasn't a decent feature.'Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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But, lo! from a peak on the mountain grand / That looks out over the smiling land / And over the mighty ocean, / The Eagle is spreading her splendid wings — / She rises, rises, and upward swings, / With a slow, majestic motion.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.Ella Wheeler Wilcox