Living
Opportunity
From Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels (1913)
Living
Send forth your heart's desire, and work and wait;
The opportunities of life are brought
To our own doors, not by capricious fate,
But by the strong compelling force of thought.
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MLA
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Opportunity.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/306/.
Chicago
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Opportunity.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/306/.
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