Poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

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Annie Healy: I have Songs from Maurine, by E.W. Wilcox suede bound; dated 16.8.'16 printed by London & Glasgow Collins, clear-type Press. Beautiful edition with colour plates and black sketch illustrations.
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Vikas Namjoshi : After reading today's poem "upon the sand" I am so enchanted first time. This might be the first comment on your site. Thanks a lot. And please advice me to find her reading material and the respective sites on Internet. Vikas Namjoshi
Su greenwood: Very disappointed not to see - I thought it was called 'the world's need' about cruelty to animals ' all the world needs is to be kind'.
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Because I am mad about women
I am mad about the hills,'
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Those hands to close these eyes,
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