Death Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

12 Death quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Wilcox’s lyrical take on death arrives in a short, punchy batch. Her emotive cadence and vivid imagery make each line stand out, giving readers a quick but heartfelt sense of how she approached the subject.

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I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

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“Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.”

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Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law…

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When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending…

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Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing…

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And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with…

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Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of…

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Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping…

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But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing,…

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“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth…

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Conversation God and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . And where are all…

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

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Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I…

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With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let…

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“Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.”

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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…

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Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

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Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

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I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world…

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All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet…

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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

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Don't anticipate the happiness of tomorrow. Discover it today.

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