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Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

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Life, Fate, Waiting

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

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Let me, tonight look back across the span
Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say-
Because of some good act to beast or human-
The world is better that I lived today.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Kindness, Dark, Generosity

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Morning Prayer”

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No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

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Grieving, Dumb, Lips

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

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Children, Father, Son

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1905). “The Story of a Literary Career”

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A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

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Lost, Pens, Misused

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1905). “The Story of a Literary Career”

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There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

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Life, Heaven, Path Of Love

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1121, Jazzybee Verlag

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The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

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Love, Passion, Heart

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Funny, Success, Art

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Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

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Appreciation, Night, Sea

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1006, Jazzybee Verlag

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Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Country, Song, Appreciation

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.263, Jazzybee Verlag

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Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.

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Lonely, Appreciation, Greatness

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1494, Delphi Classics

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We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

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Thanksgiving, Moments, Praise

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.993, Delphi Classics

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Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Faith, Ignorance, Doubt

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd!

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Inspirational, Gay, People

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1456, Delphi Classics

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Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.

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Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1153, Delphi Classics

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God sent us here to make mistakes

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Mistake, Making Mistakes

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"

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Wise, Wisdom, Memories

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.249, Jazzybee Verlag

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Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

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Wise, Wisdom, Fate

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1004, Jazzybee Verlag

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Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

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Wise, Wisdom, Luxury

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1072, Delphi Classics

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

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Time, Art, Passion

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “The Destroyer”

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'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.

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Sad, Solitude, Guests

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.522, Jazzybee Verlag

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I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.

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Sad, Morning, Faces

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.

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Mind, Body, Spirit

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

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Anger, Fate, Race

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair.

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Fear, Dark, Rooms

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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Born: November 5, 1850
Died: October 30, 1919
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