Hump Day Poetry from Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Wednesday
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    Half-way unto the end - the week's high noon.
    The morning hours do speed away so soon!
    And, when the noon is reached, however bright,
    Instinctively we look toward the night.
        The glow is lost
         Once the meridian cross'd.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude," which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.

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