Fiction And Fact

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In books I read, how men have lived and died,
   With hopeless love deep in their bosoms hidden.
While she for whom they long in secret sighed,
   Went on her way, nor guessed this flame unbidden.

In real life, I never chanced to see
   The woman who was loved, and did not know it,
And observation proves this fact to me:
   No man can love a woman and not show it.

Next 10 Poems

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Five Kisses: 01 - The Mother's Kiss
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Five Kisses: 02 - The Betrothal
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Five Kisses: 03 - The Bridal Kiss
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Five Kisses: 04 - Domestic Bliss
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Five Kisses: 05 - Old Age
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Fleeing Away
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Foes
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Forward
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Friday
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Friendship

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• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Father
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : England, Awake!
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : East And West
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Dust-sealed
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Coronation Poem And Prayer
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Comrades
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Compensations: 03 - Shut-in
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Compensations: 02 - Deaf
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Compensations: 01 - Blind