Poets/Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Dear love, where the red lillies blossomed and grew, …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

After the fierce midsummer all ablaze …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I love your lips when they’re wet with wine …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If, when I die, I must be buried, let …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No classes here! Why, that is idle talk. …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Oh, what am I but an engine, shod …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Into the gloom of the deep, dark night, …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Somebody’s baby was buried to-day— …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Alone it stands in Poesy’s fair land, …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is something in the sound of drum and fife …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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