Emma Wheeler Wilcox

Overview

Emma Wheeler Wilcox born Johnstown, WI November 5, 1850 (d. 1919). American peace poet.

Quotations

THE OLD CENTURY:
War's most hideous crimes
Besmirch the record of these modern times.
Degenerate is the world I leave to you,

THE NEW CENTURY: We shall talk more of love, and less of sin,
In this new era. We are drawing near
Unatlassed boundaries of a larger sphere.
(Meeting of the Centuries 1901; photo Wisc. History)