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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

The Tides

Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.
   On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight,
But back on the incoming waves it may ride
   And land at your threshold again before night.
Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.

Be careful what follies you toss in life’s sea.
   On bright dancing billows they drift far away,
But back on the Nemesis tides they may be
   Thrown down at your threshold an unwelcome day
Be careful what follies you toss in youth’s sea.

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):

Clinton Scollard (Клинтон Сколлард) The Tides (“Through rush and reed”)

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