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The moments to us that are keen and sweet - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "American Boys, Hello!"

For each is a brother away from home - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "American Boys, Hello!"

My heart has struggled with its awful grief - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"

Thinking the cooling winds would bring relief - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"

If I must live again these weary years - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"

He waits to row me to a fairer shore - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"

Expires in the intensity of its own fires - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Friendship After Love"

Midsummer all ablaze has burned itself to ashes - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Friendship After Love"

His own throes, and torments, and desires - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Friendship After Love"

Ghost of a Hope that lighted my days - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"

Jeers me with sobs and with sighs - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"

And the hands that destroy clasped it close - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"

Born with joy, reared with hope - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"

Fain would forget all these dead - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"

In each shadowy corner there lurketh a ghost - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"

So vast, so deep, so full of mysteries - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "How Like the Sea"

And break in fulness of their ecstasy - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "How Like the Sea"

Encroaching ever on the yielding shore - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "How Like the Sea"

By the quivering lid of an averted eye - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

The smile that proves the parent to a sigh - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

In the avoidance of that which we seek - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Unnamed light that floods the world with splendour - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Lightnings that precede the mighty storm - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Between the shores of keen delights and pains - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Where madness melts in bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

To sin by silence, when we should protest - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

Had no voice been raised against injustice - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

The inquisition yet would serve the law - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

Guillotines decide our least disputes - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

Speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

Cry loud disapproval of existing ills - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

That great journey of the stars through space - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

Has been the one companion of the Earth - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

Which at Time's natal hour was first begun - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

Lights his orbit with her silvery smile - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

Down from her beaten path she softly slips - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

With her mantle veils the Sun's bold eyes - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

See only that the Sun is in eclipse - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

We walk on starry fields of white and do not see - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Thanksgiving"

For blessings common in our sight - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Thanksgiving"

Our daily store of pleasures sweet and tender - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Thanksgiving"

Many a joy we pass by and forget - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Thanksgiving"

Who knows the mask is double - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Thanksgiving"

Small acts that are just and right - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"

Smiling at fate, when you want to cry - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"

A shadowed spot where we journey along alone - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"

Flinging a prayer at the face of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"

Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"

The doing of old things - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

In smiling at fate - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

Where the wonder-seekers crowd - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

Keeping to true ways - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

Walking with feet faith-shod - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

Not set on fighting - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Greater Britain"

Never our plan - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Greater Britain"

Not fashioned for cages - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Greater Britain"

No work but leisure - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Knitting"

Broken bits of time - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Knitting"

Converse with their hearts - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"

Face a startled world - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"

The door of useless words - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"

Whispering phantom hosts - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Ghosts"

In a medley of tongues - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"

A lonely pathway crept - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"

The word that sways, and stirs, and stays - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"

Work on your word a thousand weeks - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"

Leaps forth white hot when the fountains of feeling run - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"

Leaps forth white hot - Ella Wheeler Wilcox “The Word”

When the fountains of feeling run - Ella Wheeler Wilcox “The Word”

We know we dream - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

We rise up laughing with the light - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

We lie down weeping with the night - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

We hug the world until it stings - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

We curse it then and sigh for wings - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

And that's the burden of the year - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

The burden of the year - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

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