Name: Custer, and other poems,
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
ISBN: 978-1425509996

Literature & Fiction | Poetry

Custer, and other poems,

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox 13 Feb, 2021

SAVE FOR LATER

DOWNLOAD

Time's finger on the dial of my life Points to high noon! and yet the half-spent day Leaves less than half remaining, for the dark, Bleak shadows of the grave engulf the end. To those who burn the candle to the stick, The sputtering socket yie ... Read more

Time's finger on the dial of my life Points to high noon! and yet the half-spent day Leaves less than half remaining, for the dark, Bleak shadows of the grave engulf the end. To those who burn the candle to the stick, The sputtering socket yields but little light. Long life is sadder than an early death. We cannot count on raveled threads of age Whereof to weave a fabric. We must use The warp and woof the ready present yields And toil while daylight lasts. When I bethink How brief the past, the future still more brief, Calls on to action, action! Not for me Is time for retrospection or for dreams, Not time for self-laudation or remorse. Less

File size
Print pages
Publisher
Language
ISBN

110.562 KB
140
Public Domain Book
English
978-1425509996

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Author

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with...

Related Books

view all