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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nov. 5, 1850
to
Oct. 30, 1919
Other Works
One Woman's Plea Sleep And Death Resolve Once In A While Twilight Thoughts The Gossips Here And Now Little Queen Discontent A Plea An Autumn Reverie Life (An infant wailing in nameless fear...) A Song Of The Republics There Comes a Time The Musicians The City Regret And Remorse Wail Of An Old-Timer A Waif RealisationFreedom
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I care not who were vicious back of me,
No shadow of their sins on me is shed.
My will is greater than heredity,
I am no worm to feed upon the dead.
My face, my form, my gestures and my voice,
May be reflections from a race that was.
But this I know, and knowing it, rejoice,
I am myself a part of the Great Cause.
I am a spirit! Spirit would suffice,
If rightly used, to set a chained world free.
Am I not stronger than a mortal vice
That crawls the length of some ancestral tree?
Source:
Poems of PleasureCopyright 1900
Gay And Bird, 22 Bedford Street, Strand, London