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Poems of Purpose

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Book Overview: 

This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the theme is Purpose

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .That is the country for you and me.’

So away went Willie and Tom together
On a pleasure boat, in the lazy weather,
And they sailed in the teeth of a friendly breeze
Right into the harbour of ‘Do-as-You-Please.’
Where boats and tackle and marbles and kites
Were waiting them there in this Land of Delights.
They dwelt on the Island of Endless Play
For five long years; then one sad day
A strange, dark ship sailed up to the strand,
And ‘Ho! for the voyage to Stupid Land,’
The captain cried, with a terrible noise,
As he seized the frightened and struggling boys
And threw them into the dark ship’s hold;
And off and away sailed the captain bold.
They vainly begged him to let them out,
He answered only with scoff and shout.
‘Boys that don’t study or work,’ said he,
‘Must sail one day down the Ignorant Sea
To Stupid Land by the. . . Read More