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| 2791. | Answered Prayers by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | I prayed for riches, and achieved success;
All that I touched turned into gold. Alas!
My cares were greater and my peace was less,
When that wish c... |
| 2792. | Song Of The Spirit by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | Too sweet and too subtle for pen or for tongue
In phrases unwritten and measures unsung,
As deep and as strange as the sounds of the sea,
Is the ... |
| 2793. | Bird Of Hope by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | Soar not too high, O bird of Hope!
Because the skies are fair;
The tempest may come on apace
And overcome thee there.
When far above the mountai... |
| 2794. | Life Is A Privilege by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | Life is a privilege. Its youthful days
Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays.
To live, to breathe, to wonder and desire,
To feed with dreams ... |
| 2795. | Inspiration by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy,
Is inspiration, eager to pursue,
But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy,
Who gives herself to him who ... |
| 2796. | Morning Prayer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | Let me to-day do something that shall take
A little sadness from the world’s vast store,
And may I be so favoured as to make
Of joy’s too scan... |
| 2797. | An Empty Crib by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | Beside a crib that holds a baby’s stocking,
A tattered picture book, a broken toy,
A sleeping mother dreams that she is rocking
Her fair-haired c... |
| 2798. | Independence Ode by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | Columbia, fair queen in your glory!
Columbia, the pride of the earth!
We crown you with song- wreath and story;
We honour the day of your birth!... |
| 2799. | An Old Man To His Sleeping Young Bride by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | As when the old moon lighted by the tender
And radiant crescent of the new is seen,
And for a moment's space suggests the splendor
Of what in its f... |
| 2800. | Earthly Pride by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | | How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride,
The diamond is but charcoal purified,
The lordliest pearl that decks a monarch’s breast
Is but an ... |
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