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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

Satiety

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. 

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):

Arthur Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс)) Satiety (“I have outlived my life, and linger on”)

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