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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nov. 5, 1850
to
Oct. 30, 1919
Other Works
Necessity Peace And Love Never Mind In Heaven With You Sorry A Maiden To Her Mirror Rubies Platonic The Difference (Passion is what the sun feels for the earth...) At The Window Two Nights Love Much It Will All Come Out Right Waiting The Room Beneath The Rafters The Hammock's Complaint A Married Coquette In The Long Run A Song The Lady Of TearsSatiety
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To yearn for what we have not had, to sit
With hungry eyes glued on the Future's gate,
Why, that is heaven compared to having it
With all the power gone to appreciate.
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait,
And die at last with unappeased desire,
Than live to be the jest of such a fate,
For that is my conception of hell-fire.
Source:
Poems of SentimentCopyright 1911
Gay And Hancock, Ltd., London