May Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

11 May quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Wilcox captures May’s feelings with lyrical flair, each verse a brushstroke of hope or longing. The collection, though small, showcases her talent for turning seasonal moments into heartfelt poetry.

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Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

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And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For…

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You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it…

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With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

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Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming…

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You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and…

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Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense…

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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,…

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My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor…

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Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the…

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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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“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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