Woman’s Day Poems – Woman by Ella Wheeler Wilcox


  Strange are the ways that her feet have trod Since first she was set in the path of duty, Finished and fair by the hand of God, To carry her message of love and beauty. Delicate creature of light and shade, She gleamed like an opal, on wide worlds under: And earth looked up […]

Impatience – by Ella Wheeler Wilcox


How can I wait until you come to me? The once fleet mornings linger by the way, Their sunny smiles touched with malicious glee At my unrest; they seem to pause, and play Like truant children, while I sigh and say, How can I wait? How can I wait? Of old, the rapid hours Refused […]

Love’s Language by Ella Wheeler Wilcox


How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye— The smile that proves the patent to a sigh— Thus doth Love speak. How does Love speak? By the uneven heart-throbs, and the freak Of bounding pulses that […]