English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Earth. Элла Уилкокс.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

The Earth

The earth is yours and mine,
   Our God’s bequest.
That testament divine
   Who dare contest?

Usurpers of the earth,
   We claim our share.
We are of royal birth.
   Beware! beware!

Unloose the hand of greed
   From God’s fair land,
We claim but what we need-
   That, we demand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s other poems:

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

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

Jones Very (Джонс Вери) The Earth (“I would lie low, the ground on which men tread”)

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