Reading.
Get started

Library / Literature & Fiction

Maurine and Other Poems

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Pages
about 109
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
2 h at 250 wpm
Start readingThe whole book, as cards or one word at a time. 67 min at 450 wpm in Read mode.

From the opening

PAGE Maurine 1 All Roads that Lead to God are Good 129 Dust-sealed 131 “Advice” 133 Over the Banisters 135 The Past 137 Secrets 138 Applause 139 The Story 140 Lean Down 142 Life 144 The Christian’s New Year Prayer 145 In the Night 147 God’s Measure 149 A March Snow 150 Philosophy 151 “Carlos” 152 The Two Glasses 155 La Mort d’Amour 158 Love’s Sleep 160 True Culture 162 The Voluptuary 163 The Coquette 165 If 166 Love’s Burial 168 Lippo 170 “Love is Enough” 172 Life is Love 174

I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune, Oh, beauteous was that morn in early June! Mellow with sunlight, and with blossoms fair: The climbing rose-tree grew about me there, And checked with shade the sunny portico Where, morns like this, I came to read, or sew.

I heard the gate click, and a firm, quick tread Upon the walk. No need to turn my head; I would mistake, and doubt my own voice sounding, Before his step upon the gravel bounding. In an unstudied attitude of grace, He stretched his comely form; and from his face He tossed the dark, damp curls; and at my knees, With his broad hat he fanned the lazy breeze, And turned his head, and lifted his large eyes, Of that strange hue we see in ocean dyes, And call it blue sometimes and sometimes green, And save in poet eyes, not elsewhere seen. “Lest I should meet with my fair lady’s scorning, For calling quite so early in the morning, I’ve brought a passport that can never fail,” He said, and, laughing, laid the morning mail Upon my lap. “I’m welcome? so I thought! I’ll figure by the letters that I brought How glad you are to see me. Only one? And that one from a lady? I’m undone! That, lightly skimmed, you’ll think me such a bore, And wonder why I did not bring you four.

A short sample. Read the whole book

More to read

Public-domain text from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks or a similar open source. Copyright differs between countries. Rights holder? See our takedown process.