English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. You and To-Day. Элла Уилкокс.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

You and To-Day

With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.

The past has shrived and buried deep
All yesterdays-there let them sleep,

Nor seek to summon back one ghost
Of that innumerable host.

Concern yourself with but to-day;
Woo it and teach it to obey

Your wish and will. Since time began
To-day has been the friend of man.

But in his blindness and his sorrow
He looks to yesterday and to-morrow.

You and to-day! a soul sublime
And the great pregnant hour of time.

With God between to bind the train,
Go forth, I say-attain-attain.

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

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