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"Love's Coming"
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The romantic poetry found in Love's Coming engages our imaginative expectations of how we think love will come to us--with all the sparks and fanfare--and instead it arrives with a calm peacefulness that stirs our souls.
Love's Coming
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She had looked for his coming as warriors come,
With the clash of arms and the bugle's call;
But he came instead with a stealthy tread
Which she did not hear at all.
She had thought how his armor would blaze in the sun,
As he rode like a Prince to claim his bride;
In the sweet, dim light of the falling night
She found him at her side.
She had dreamed how the gaze of his strange, bold eye
Would wake her heart to a sudden glow;
She found in his face the familiar grace
Of a friend she used to know.
She had dreamed how his coming would stir her soul,
As the ocean is stirred by the wild storm's strife;
He brought her the balm of a heavenly calm,
And a peace which crowned her life.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and popular poet, often expressing her sentiments of cheer and optimism through her poetry.
Her best-known work was Poems of Passion, although she did write a series of books entitled "Poems of..." which featured Cheer, Experience, Optimism, Power, Progress, Purpose, and Sentiment. Shortly before her death, her autobiography--The Worlds and I--was published.
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