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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

The Wish

Should some great angel say to me to-morrow,
  ”Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the start,
But God will grant, in pity, for thy sorrow,
  Some one dear wish, the nearest to thy heart.”

This were my wish! from my life’s dim beginning
  Let be what has been! wisdom planned the whole;
My want, my woe, my errors, and my sinning,
  All, all were needed lessons for my soul.

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):

Abraham Cowley (Абрахам Каули) The Wish (“WELL then! I now do plainly see”)

Mary Chudleigh (Мэри Чадли) The Wish (“Would but indulgent Fortune send”)

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