The Poetry Corner

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poems

A Baby In The House
A Bachelor To A Married Flirt
A Ballade Of The Unborn Dead
A Book For The King
A Burial
A Crushed Leaf
A Curious Story
A Dialogue
A Dirge
A Dream
A Dream.
A Fable.
A Fisherman's Baby
A Girl's Autumn Reverie
A Girl's Faith
A Girl's Faith.
A Good Sport
A Holiday
A Leaf
A Leaf.
A Little Song
A Maiden To Her Mirror
A Man's Good-Bye
A Man's Ideal
A Man's Last Love
A Man's Repentance
A Man's Reverie
A March Snow.
A Marine Etching
A Married Coquette
A Meeting.
A Minor Chord
A Moorish Maid
A Naughty Little Comet
A Picture.
A Pin
A Plea To Peace
A Prayer
A Reminiscence
A Reminiscence.
A Sculptor.
A Servian Legend
A Solar Eclipse
A Son Speaks
A Song Of Home
A Song Of Life
A Song Of Life.
A Song Of Republics
A Song.
A Strain Of Music
A Successful Man
A Suggestion
A Suggestion, To C. A. D.
A Vagabond Mind
A Vision
A Waft Of Perfume
A Wakeful Night
A Waltz-Quadrille.
A Warning
A Wish
A Woman's Answer
A Woman's Hand
A Woman's Love
About May
Acquaintance
Action
Ad Finem.
Advice.
Aesthetic
Aesthetic.
Affirm
After
After The Battles Are Over
After The Battles Are Over.
After The Engagement
All For Me
All For Me.
All In A Coach And Four
All Mad
All Mad.
All Roads That Lead To God Are Good
All That Love Asks
Alone In The House
Always At Sea
Ambition's Trail
America
America Will Not Turn Back' Woodrow Wilson
American Boys, Hello!
An Afternoon
An Answer.
An Autumn Day
An East Wind
An Empty Crib
An Episode
An Erring Woman's Love
An Inspiration
An Ode To Time
An Old Bouquet
An Old Heart
An Old Man To His Sleeping Young Bride
An Old Song
An Old-Fashioned Type
And They Are Dumb
And They Are Dumb.
Answer
Answered.
Answers
Applause.
Appreciation
Aquileia
Aristarchus (The Name Of The Mountain In The Moon)
Arrow And Bow
Art And Heart.
Art Thou Alive?
Art Versus Cupid
Artist's Life
Artist's Life.
As By Fire.
As We Look Back (Rondeau)
As You Go Through Life
Ascension
Assertion
Assistance
Astrolabius (The Child Of Abelard And Heloise)
At Bay
At Eleusis.
At Fontainebleau
At The Bridal
At The Hop
Attainment
Attraction.
Awakened!
Battle Hymn Of The Women
Be Not Attached
Be Not Content
Be Not Dismayed
Beauty
Beauty Making
Before And After
Begin The Day
Behold The Earth
Belgium
Beppo.
Best
Beyond.
Bleak Weather.
Blind
Bound And Free
Breaking The Day In Two
Bridge Of Prayer
Brotherhood
Burdened
Burdened.
Burned Out
But One.
By-And-By.
By-And-Bye
Camouflage
Camp Followers
Canada
Carlos.
Certitude
Change.
Cheating Time
Christ Crucified
Christmas Fancies
Circumstance
Climbing
Come Back Clean
Come Near
Communism.
Compassion
Compensations
Completion
Comrades
Comrades.
Concentration
Confession
Conquest
Consciousness
Content And Happiness
Contrasts
Conversation
Conversion.
Coronation Poem And Prayer
Couleur De Rose
Courage
Courage.
Creation.
Credulity
Custer
De Rochambeau
Dear Motherland Of France, Dedicated To The Men And Women Of France
Death Has Crowned Him A Martyr
Death's Protest
Deceitful Calm
December
Deep Unto Deep Was Calling
Delilah.
Dell And I
Desolation.
Diamonds
Disarmament
Discontent
Divorced
Does It Pay
Does It Pay?
Domestic Bliss
Double Carnations
Dreams.
Drouth.
Dual
Dust-Sealed.
Duty's Path
Earnestness.
Earth Bound
Earthly Pride
East And West
Easter Morn
Effect
England, Awake!
Estranged
Europe
Existence
Faith
False
Fate And I
Father
Father And Son
Fear
Fiction And Fact
Five Kisses
Fleeing Away
Fleeing Away.
Floods.
Flowers Of France' Decoration Poem For Soldiers' Graves, Tours, France, May 30, 1918
Foes
Foes.
Forbidden Speech
Forward
Found
Friday
Friendship
Friendship After Love.
Friendship.
From The Grave.
Geraldine
Gethsemane
Gethsemane.
Ghosts
Ghosts.
Give
Go Back
Go Plant A Tree
God Rules Alway
God's Answer
God's Kin
God's Measure
God's Measure.
Good Night
Gracia.
Grandpa's Christmas
Greater Britain
Grief
Guerdon
Guerdon.
Guilo.
Gypsying
Half Fledged
Half Fledged.
Happiness
Has Been
He That Hath Ears
He That Looketh
He Will Not Come
Heaven And Hell
Helen Of Troy On The Isle Of Cranae
Helen Of Troy On The Isle Of Rhodes
Helena
Helena.
Her Last Letter
Her Love
Her Love. (Excerpt From "Maurine")
Here And Now
Hidden Gems
Hidden Gems.
High Noon
His Last Letter
His Mansion
His Youth
Holiday Songs
Home
Honeymoon Scene (From The Drama Of Mizpah)
How Does Love Speak?
How Is It?
How Salvator Won
How The White Rose Came
How Will It Be?
Husband And Wife
Husks
I Am
I Am Running Forth To Meet You
I Didn't Think
I Dream
I Dream.
I Know Not
I Look To Science
I Will Be Worthy Of It.
I Wonder Why
I, Too
If
If Christ Came Questioning
If I Could Only Weep
If I Should Die. - Rondeau.
If I Were
If I Were A Man, A Young Man
If One Should Dive Deep
If We Should Meet Him
If.
Illusion
Impatience.
In An Old Art Gallery
In England
In France I Saw A Hill
In India's Dreamy Land
In The Crowd
In The Crowd.
In The Long Run
In The Long Run.
In The Night.
Incomplete
Individuality.
Inevitable
Inevitable.
Insight
Inspiration
Interlude
Intermediary
Into Space
Is It Done?
Isaura.
It All Will Come Out Right
It Does Not Matter
It May Be
It Might Have Been
It Might Have Been.
Jenny Lind
Just You
Justice
Karma
Keep Going
Knitting
Knowledge
La Mort D'Amour.
Lais When Old
Lais When Young
Last Love
Lean Down.
Let Me Lean Hard.
Let Them Go
Let Them Go.
Let Us Give Thanks
Leudemann's-On-The-River.
Leudemanns-On-The-River.
Life
Life And I
Life And I.
Life Is A Privilege
Life Is Love
Life Is Too Short.
Life's Car
Life's Harmonies
Life's Harmonies
Life's Key
Life's Opera
Life's Track
Life.
Limitless
Lincoln
Lippo.
Listen
Little Blue Hood
Little Blue Hood.
Little Girls
Little Queen.
Lord, Speak Again
Lost Nation
Love
Love And The Seasons
Love Is Enough
Love Song.
Love Thyself Last
Love's Burial
Love's Burial.
Love's Coming.
Love's Language (Preface To "Poems Of Progress")
Love's Language.
Love's Mirage
Love's Sleep.
Love's Supremacy
Love's Way
Love, Time, And Will
Luck
Mad
March
Martyrs Of Peace
Maurine
Maurine Part I.
Maurine Part II.
Maurine Part III.
Maurine Part IV.
Maurine Part V.
Maurine Part VI.
Maurine Part VII.
Meditations - Hers
Meditations - His
Meg's Curse
Memorial Day -1892
Memories {1}
Memory's Mansion
Memory's River
Men Of The Sea
Mesalliance.
Met
Midsummer
Midsummer.
Mirage
Mission
Mistakes
Mobilisation
Mockery.
Momus, God Of Laughter
Momus, God Of Laughter.
Monday
More Fortunate
Morning Prayer
Most Blest Is He
Music In The Flat
My Faith
My Flower Room
My Friend.
My Heaven
My Heritage.
My Home
My Ships
Neutral
Never Mind
New And Old.
New Year
New Year Resolve
New Year's Day
Night
Night.
Nirvana
No Comfort
No Place
No Song
No Spring
No Spring.
Noblesse Oblige
Noblesse Oblige.
Noon
Not Anchored
Not Quite The Same.
Nothing But Stones
Nothing But Stones.
Nothing New.
Nothing Remains
Nothing Remains.
Now
Now I Lay Me
Obstacles
Occupation
Ode To The British Fleet
Oh, Poor, Sick World
Old Age
Old And New.
Old Rhythm And Rhyme
On Avon's Breast I Saw A Stately Swan
On Rainy Days
On Seeing 'The House Of Julia' At Herculaneum
On Seeing The Diabutsu - At Kamakura, Japan
One By One
One Night
Only A Glove
Only A Line
Only A Simple Rhyme.
Only A Slight Flirtation
Only Be Still
Only In Dreams
Opportunity
Our Atlas
Our Petty Cares
Our Souls
Over The Banisters.
Over The May Hill
Over The May Hill.
Pain's Purpose
Pardoned Out
Parting
Passing The Buck
Peace Should Not Come
Peek-A-Boo
Penalty.
Perfection
Perfectness.
Petition
Philosophy.
Platonic
Platonic.
Plea To Science
Plea To Science.
Poems Of The Week
Possession
Praise Day
Prayer
Preaching vs. Practice
Preface to Maurine And Other Poems
Preface To Poems Of Cheer
Preface to The Englishman and Other Poems - The Queen's Last Ride
Preparation
Presentiment
Presumption
Progress
Progress.
Progression
Protest
Queries.
Rangoon
Read At The Benefit Of Clara Morris (America's Great Emotional Actress)
Realisation
Realisation (At The Old Homestead)
Red Carnations.
Reflection
Reform
Regret And Remorse
Regret.
Reincarnation
Remembered
Reminders
Repetition
Replies
Resolve.
Respite
Respite.
Response.
Resurrection
Retrospection
Returned Birds
Reunited.
Reverie
Reward
River And Sea
Robin's Mistake
Romney
Rondeau
Rubies
Sapphires
Satiety
Saturday
Science
Secrets.
See?
Seeking For Happiness
Separation
September
Sestina
Shadows
Show Me The Way.
Shrines
Simple Creeds
Sirius
Sisters Of Mine
Sleep's Treachery
Slipping Away
Slipping Away.
Smiles
Smoke
Snowed Under
Snowed Under.
So Long
Solitude
Solitude.
Song
Song Of The Aviator
Song Of The Rail
Song Of The Road
Song Of The Spirit
Song. (Excerpt from "Maurine")
Songs From The Turret. (From "Three Women")
Songs Of A Country Home
Songs Of Love And The Sea
Sonnet.
Sorrow's Uses
Sorry
Speak
Spectres
Spirit Of A Great Control
Strength
Success
Summer Dreams
Summer's Farewell
Sun Shadows
Sunday
Sunset.
Swimming Song
Sympathy
Ten Thousand Men A Day
Thank God For Life
Thanksgiving
The Age Of Motored Things
The All-Creative Spark
The Answer
The Arrival
The Awakening
The Beautiful Blue Danube.
The Beautiful Land Of Nod.
The Betrothal
The Birth Of Jealousy
The Black Sheep
The Blasphemy Of Guns
The Brave Highland Laddies
The Breaking Of Chains
The Bridal Eve
The Bridal Kiss
The Call
The Captive
The Choosing Of Esther (From The Drama Of Mizpah)
The Chosen
The Christian's New Year Prayer.
The Coming Man
The Common Lot.
The Convention
The Coquette.
The Cost
The Creed To Be
The Creed.
The Crimes Of Peace
The Cure
The Cusine
The Deadliest Sin
The Decadent
The Depths
The Duel
The Duet.
The Earth
The Edict Of The Sex
The Empty Bowl
The End Of The Summer
The Engine.
The Englishman
The Eternal Now
The Eternal Will
The Faith We Need
The Falling Of Thrones
The Farewell Of Clarimonde.
The Fire Brigade
The Foolish Elm
The Forecast
The German Fleet
The Ghost
The Ghosts
The Giddy Girl
The Girl Of The U.S.A.
The Goal
The Gossips
The Graduates
The Greater Love
The Gulf Stream
The Hammock's Complaint
The Harp's Song
The Heights
The Hour
The House Of Life
The Hymn Of The Republic
The Invisible Helpers
The Island Of Endless Play
The Jealous Gods
The Kettle
The Khaki Boys Who Were Not At The Front
The Kingdom Of Love
The Ladder
The Lady And The Dame
The Land Between
The Land Of Content
The Land Of Content.
The Land Of The Gone-Away-Souls
The Last Dance
The Law
The Leader To Be
The Little Go-Cart
The Little Lady Of The Bullock Cart
The Little White Hearse
The London 'Bobby' - A Tribute To The Policemen Of England's Capital
The Lost Garden.
The Lullaby
The Maniac
The Masquerade
The Meeting Of The Centuries
The Men-Made Gods
The Message
The Messenger
The Mother's Kiss
The Muse And The Poet
The Nameless
The Need Of The World
The New Commandment
The New Hawaiian Girl
The New Love
The Night
The Ocean Of Song
The Old Wooden Cradle
The Optimist
The Other
The Paean Of Peace
The Past
The Past.
The Peace Angel
The Pendulum
The Pessimist
The Phantom Ball
The Play
The Plough
The Poet's Song
The Poet's Theme
The Price He Paid
The Princess's Finger-Nail: A Tale Of Nonsense Land
The Punished
The Punished.
The Purpose
The Queen's Last Ride
The Question
The Radiant Christ
The Rainbow Of Promise
The Rape Of The Mist
The Reason
The Revealing Angels
The Revolt Of Vashti (From The Drama Of Mizpah)
The River
The River Of Sleep
The Saddest Hour.
The Salt Sea-Wind
The Search
The Second Coming
The Secret Of Prayer
The Ship And The Boat
The Signboard
The Silent Tragedy
The Song Of The Allies
The Sonnet
The Sonnet.
The Speech Of Silence.
The Spinster
The Spirit Of Great Joan
The Spur
The Squanderer
The Statue
The Stevedores
The Story.
The Structure
The Suicide
The Suitors
The Summer Girl
The Superwoman
The Swan Of Dijon
The Sword
The Tavern Of Last Times (At Box Hill, Surrey)
The Tendril's Faith
The Tendril's Fate
The Things That Count
The Tides
The Tiger.
The Times
The Tower-Room
The Traveled Man
The Traveller
The Trinity
The Trio.
The Trip To Mars
The Truth Teller
The Tryst
The Tulip Bed At Greeley Square
The Two Ages
The Two Glasses
The Two Glasses.
The Unattained
The Unattained.
The Under-Tone
The Undertone
The Undiscovered Country
The Universal Route
The Unwed Mother To The Wife
The Valley Of Fear
The Voice
The Voice Of The Voiceless
The Voices Of The City
The Voices Of The People
The Voluptuary.
The Watcher
The Way
The Weed
The Well-Born
The Wheel Of The Breast.
The White Man
The Winds Of Fate
The Wish
The Word
The Worker And The Work
The World Grows Better
The World's Need
The World-Child
The Year
The Year Outgrows The Spring.
The Year.
The Yellow-Covered Almanac
The Younger Born
Their Faces
Then And Now
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead
They Shall Not Win
This Is My Task
Thought-Magnets
Thoughts
Thoughts On Leaving Japan
Three At The Opera
Three Friends
Three Souls
Three Things
Three Women
Three Women.
Through Dim Eyes
Through Tears
Through Tears.
Through The Valley.
Thursday
Thy Ship
Time And Love.
Time Enough
Time's Defeat
Time's Gaze
Time's Hymn Of Hate
Tired.
To An Astrologer
To Another Woman's Baby
To Marry Or Not To Marry? A Girl's Reverie
To The Teachers Of The Young
To The West
To The West.
To The Women Of Australia
To-Day
Together
Transformation
Trifles
True Brotherhood
True Culture.
Tuesday
Turquoise
Twin-Born.
Two
Two Friends
Two Ghosts
Two Men
Two Nights
Two Rooms
Two Roses
Two Sat Down
Two Sinners
Two Sunsets
Two Sunsets.
Two Voices
Two Women
Two.
Un Rencontre
Unanswered Prayers
Unconquered
Uncontrolled
Under The Sheet
Understood
Unrest
Unrest.
Unsatisfied
Upon The Sand.
Uselessness
Uselessness.
Vanity Fair
Veils
Wail Of An Old-Timer
Wanted - A Little Girl
War
War Mothers
Warned
Warning
Warning.
Warp And Woof
Was, Is, And Yet-To-Be
We Must Send Them Out To Play
We Two
Wednesday
What Gain?
What Happens?
What Have You Done?
What Is Flirtation?
What Is Right Living?
What Shall We Do?
What The Rain Saw
What They Saw
What We Need
What We Needed.
What We Want
What Would It Be?
When Baby Souls Sail Out
When Love Is Lost
When My Sweet Lady Sings
When The Regiment Came Back
Wherefore?
Which
Which Are You?
Who Is A Christian?
Why
Why I Love Her
Why Should We Sigh
Widows
Will
Will.
Winter Rain
Winter Rain.
Wishes
Wishes For A Little Girl
Wishing
Woman
Woman To Man
Womanhood
Words
Words And Thoughts
Worn Out
Worth Living
Worth While
Worthy The Name Of 'Sir Knight'
You And To-Day
You Never Can Tell
You Will Forget Me.