English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Opportunity. Элла Уилкокс.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

Opportunity

Send forth your heart's desire, and work and wait;
    The opportunities of life are brought
To our own doors, not by capricious fate,
    But by the strong compelling force of thought. 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s other poems:

1. The Phantom Ball
2. The Giddy Girl
3. The Awakening (I love the tropics, where sun and rain)
4. The Bed
5. The Plow of God

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Edward Sill (Эдвард Силл) Opportunity (“THIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream”)

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