Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin
Friday, January 3, 2003

The Year Comments

Rating: 4.5

What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That's not been said a thousand times?

The new years come, the old years go,
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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David Cleveland 25 March 2025

So very true. Nicely written. I loved it.

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Chinedu Dike 02 January 2023

Beaut couplets, focused and factual.

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MAHTAB BANGALEE 01 January 2023

Yes, really that is that we are the burden of year when our expectation grows up gradually!

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Shaun Cronick 25 April 2020

Ella was a poetess and wonderful woman born way beyond her time. What more is there to say except... thank you.

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Kevin Patrick 01 January 2018

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year. Wonderful new years poem to start the year, a great choice, lets hope this years a hopeful burden.

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Rajnish Manga 01 January 2018

Fantastic work. In the backdrop of a New Year, the poet has presented a nice commentary on a man's life. Thanks.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 01 January 2018

Such an interesting new year poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox👍👍👍

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Kusum 01 January 2018

Your poem summarizes the days passing by turning into a year. Good one!

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Susan Williams 01 January 2018

An excellent poem to read on Jan 1st every year to prepare ourselves for what a year can bring us- both joy and sorrow.

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M Asim Nehal 01 January 2018

Wow, We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.

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Savita Tyagi 01 January 2018

All so true and poetic.

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Denis Mair 01 January 2018

This woman was born before her time. She was a proto-modernist. To feel the world's sting in an embrace...to rise on a sigh when one has no other wings, these are fine leaps of imagination. Sometimes the world opens in a sigh, and we feel others' suffering as well as our own.

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Mary Skarpathiotaki 01 January 2018

Excellent contains all truths and feelings...i vote 10++++++++++++++

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Kumarmani Mahakul 01 January 2018

We rise up with beauty of rising light in this New Year. This is a great perceptional Happy New Year poem beautifully penned...10

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 01 January 2018

The truth of a year so candidly told touches my emotions and soul at the outset of the new year.........very outstanding..........thanks for sharing

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David Esdaile 01 January 2018

A beautiful, sad, evocative and perceptive poem about the experience, the dread and the hope of the passing of time.

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Ramesh T A 01 January 2018

Nice one! Happy and Prosperous New Year 2018!

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Bernard F. Asuncion 01 January 2017

Nice one++++++++++++ thanks for sharing++++++++++

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Tatiana Berdennikova 01 January 2017

A beautiful poem about the cycle of life and death.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin
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