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Sestina by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I wandered o’er the vast green plains of youth,
And searched for Pleasure. On a distant height
Fam..
Smoke by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Last summer, lazing by the sea,
I met a most entrancing creature,
Her black eyes quite bewildered..
So Long In Coming by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When shall I hear the thrushes sing,
And see their graceful, round throats swelling?
When shall I..
Sing To Me by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sing to me! Something of sunlight and bloom,
I am so compassed with sorrow and gloom,
I am so sick..
Settle The Question Right by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
However the battle is ended,
Though proudly the victor comes,
With flaunting flags and neighing na..
Sorrow's Uses by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The uses of sorrow I comprehend
Better and better at each year’s end.
Deeper and deeper I seem t..
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 a..
Sorry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is much in life that makes me sorry as I journey
down life’s way.
And I seem to see more pat..
Searching by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
These quiet Autumn days,
My soul, like Noah’s dove, on airy wings
Goes out and searches for the hi..
Smiles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Smile a little, smile a little,
As you go along,
Not alone when life is pleasant,
But when things..
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks by Countee Cullen
He never spoke a word to me,
And yet He called my name;
He never gave a sign to me,
And yet I kne..
Saturday's Child by Countee Cullen
Some are teethed on a silver spoon,
With the stars strung for a rattle;
I cut my teeth as the blac..
She's All My Fancy Painted Him by Lewis Carroll
She’s all my fancy painted him
(I make no idle boast);
If he or you had lost a limb,
Which would..
Size and Tears by Lewis Carroll
When on the sandy shore I sit,
Beside the salt sea-wave,
And fall into a weeping fit
Because I da..
Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy by Lewis Carroll
And with that she
began nursing her child again, singing a sort of
lullaby to it as she did so, an..
Sonnet XXVIII by Edmund Spenser
THe laurell leafe, which you this day doe weare,
guies me great hope of your relenting mynd:
for s..
Sonnet XLV by Edmund Spenser
LEaue lady, in your glasse of christall clene,
Your goodly selfe for euermore to vew:
and in my se..
Sonnet XXXVI by Edmund Spenser
TEll me when shall these wearie woes haue end,
Or shall their ruthlesse torment neuer cease:
but a..
Sonnet XII by Edmund Spenser
ONe day I sought with her hart-thrilling eies,
to make a truce and termes to entertaine:
all fearl..
Sonnet LXXXV by Edmund Spenser
THe world that cannot deeme of worthy things,
when I doe praise her, say I doe but flatter:
so doe..
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