Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Two Sunsets & Other Poems: "No question is ever settled, until it is settled right."

Born on November 5th 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin, Ella Wheeler was the youngest of four children. She began to write as a child and by the time she graduated was already well known as a poet throughout Wisconsin. Regarded more as a popular poet than a literary poet her most famous work 'Solitude' reflects on a train journey she made where giving comfort to a distressed fellow traveller she wrote how the others grief imposed itself for a time on her 'Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone'. It was published in 1883 and was immensely popular. The following year, 1884, she married Robert Wilcox. They lived for a time in New York before moving to Connecticut. Their only child, a son, died shortly after birth. Here we publish one of her many poetry books, Custer & Other Poems, that so endeared her to her audience. Ella died of breast cancer on October 30th, 1919. Index Of Poems

Two Sunsets

Unrest

"Artist's Life"

Nothing but Stones

The Coquette

Inevitable

The Ocean of Song

"It Might Have Been"

If

Gethsemane

Dust-Sealed

"Advice"

Over the Banisters

Momus, God of Laughter

I Dream

The Past

The Sonnet

Secrets

A Dream

Uselessness

Will

Winter Rain

Applause

Life

Burdened

The Story

Let Them Go

The Engine

Nothing New

Dreams

Helena

Nothing Remains

Lean Down

Comrades

What Gain?

Life

To the West

The Land of Content

A Song of Life

Warning

The Christian's New Year Prayer

In the Night

God's Measure

A March Snow

After the Battles are Over

Noblesse Oblige

And They Are Dumb

Night

All for Me

Philosophy

"Carlos"

The Two Glasses

Through Tears

Into Space

Through Dim Eyes

La Mort d'Amour

The Punished

Half Fledged

Love's Sleep

True Culture

The Voluptuary

The Year

The Unattained

In the Crowd

Life and I

Guerdon

Snowed Under

Platonic

What We Need

"Leudemann's-on-the-River"

In the Long Run

Plea to Science

Love's Burial

Little Blue Hood

No Spring

Lippo

Midsummer

A Reminiscence

Respite

A Girl's Faith

Two

Slipping Away

Is it Done?

A Leaf

sthetic

Poems of the Week

Ghosts

Fleeing Away

All Mad

Hidden Gems

By-and-By

Over the May Hill

A Song

Foes

Friendship

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - A Short Biography

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - A Concise Bibliography