Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod. Ella Wheeler Wilcox More Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox More Quotes From Ella Wheeler Wilcox Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure. Ella Wheeler Wilcox fashion song sweet Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt. Ella Wheeler Wilcox ignorance faith doubt The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow. Ella Wheeler Wilcox perspective light dark Good music is wine turned to sound Ella Wheeler Wilcox music-is wine sound Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Ella Wheeler Wilcox cobwebs light soul I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain. Ella Wheeler Wilcox pain cities heart Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams Ella Wheeler Wilcox sad dream beautiful No fate could rob us of our own-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox loan fate character Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. Ella Wheeler Wilcox reading writing children Between the finite and the infinite Ella Wheeler Wilcox missing life heaven I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain. Ella Wheeler Wilcox pain faith fall Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose. Ella Wheeler Wilcox you-choose climbs All roads that lead to God are good. Ella Wheeler Wilcox good-god god Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . . Ella Wheeler Wilcox wish kindness world Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea. Ella Wheeler Wilcox confidence dream lying It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears. Ella Wheeler Wilcox All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
