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Earthly Pride

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride,
The diamond is but charcoal purified,
The lordliest pearl that decks a monarch's breast
Is but an insect's sepulchre at best.




Quotes of the Day

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
• George Eliot


Poems of the Day
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    At an Old Drawer
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    Before this scarf was faded, What hours of mirth it knew; How gayly it paraded From smiling eyes to view. The days were tinged with glory, The nights too quickly sped, And life was like a story