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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

The Reason

Do you know what moves the tides
    As they swing from low to high?
'Tis the love, love, love,
    Of the moon within the sky.
Oh, they follow where she guides,
Do the faithful hearted tides.

Do you know what moves the earth
    Out of winter into spring?
'Tis the love, love, love,
    Of the sun, the mighty king.
Oh, the rapture that finds birth,
In the kiss of sun and earth.

Do you know what makes sweet songs
    Ring for me above earth's strife?
'Tis the love, love, love,
    That you bring into my life,
Oh, the glory of the songs
In the heart where love belongs. 

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. Bleak Weather

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

Norman Gale (Норман Гейл) The Reason (“Now why did Arthur Hoare pull out”)

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