Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Two Sunsets & Other Poems

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
Æsthetic
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