“There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Solitude
Poetry quotes
Context: Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.

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American author and poet 1850–1919

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