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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

Words

Words are great forces in the realm of life:
   Be careful of their use. Who talks of hate,
Of poverty, of sickness, but sets rife
   These very elements to mar his fate.

When love, health, happiness, and plenty hear
   Their names repeated over day by day,
They wing their way like answering fairies near,
   Then nestle down within our homes to stay.

Who talks of evil conjures into shape
   The formless thing and gives it life and scope.
This is the law: then let no word escape
   That does not breathe of everlasting hope.

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):

William Yeats (Уильям Йейтс) Words (“I HAD this thought a while ago”)

Edward Thomas (Эдвард Томас) Words (“Out of us all”)

Sylvia Plath (Сильвия Плат) Words (“Axes after whose stroke the wood rings”)

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