Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Book Lovers' Edition -- Japon Paper. "Charming Edition in two Printings with original pencil drawings by Alice Ross." [from dustjacket] Edinburgh: Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, [n.d. Inscription 1915]  242 p. 16 cm.

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INTRODUCTORY VERSES

Oh, you who read some song that I have sung--
What know you of the soul from whence it sprung?

Dost dream the poet ever speaks aloud
His secret thought unto the listening crowd?

Go take the murmuring sea-shell from the shore--
You have its shape, its colour--and no more.

It tells not one of those vast mysteries
That lie beneath the surface of the seas.

Our songs are shells, cast out by waves of thought;
Here, take them at your pleasure; but think not

You've seen beneath the surface of the waves,
Where lie our shipwrecks, and our coral caves.

CONTENTS:

POEMS OF PASSION

1. Love's Language
2. Impatience
3. Communism
4. The Common Lot
5. Individuality
6. Upon the Sand
7. "The Beautiful Blue Danube"
8. Answered
9. Through the Valley
10. The Duet
11. Little Queen
12. Wherefore
13. Delilah
14. Change
15. A Waltz-Quadrille
16. Tired
17. Conversion
18. Old and New
19. Ad Finem
20. You Will Forget Me
21. Progress
22. Show Me the Way
23. Solitude
24. The Beautiful Land of Nod
25. I Will Be Worthy of It
26. Earnestness
27. A Pin
28. Now
29. Illogical
30. Friendship after Love
31. Reunited
32. But One
33. Love Song
34. Desolation
35. Not Quite the Same
36. The Speech of Silence
37. The Creed
38. Love's Coming
39. An Answer
40. My Friend
41. Art and Heart
42. As by Fire
43. Response
44. Life is Too Short
45. A Sculptor
46. Creation
47. Sonnet
48. Mockery
49. Regret
50. "Advice"
51. Will
52. God's Measure
53. True Culture
54. Beppo

1. Surrender
2. The Way of It
3. Angel or Demon
4. Blas'e
5. Three and One
6. Inborn
7. Two Prayers
8. Love Much
9. One of Us Two
10. Two Sinners
11. What Love Is
12. Constancy
13. Resolve
14. Optimism
15. Answered Prayers
16. The Lady of Tears
17. Secret Thoughts
18. There Comes a Time
19. Necessity
20. Achievements
21. Belief
22. Whatever is--is Best
23. Peace of the Goal
24. Desire
25. Deathless
26. The Fault of the Age
27. Artist and Man
28. Babyland
29. A Face
30. Entre-Acte Reveries
31. A Plea
32. The Room Beneath the Rafters
33. An Old Fan
34. No Classes!
35. A Grey Mood
36. At an Old Drawer
37. The City
38. Woman
39. The Lost Land
40. Life's Journey
41. The Actor
42. New Year
43. Peace and Love
44. Immortality
45. The World
46. Keep out of the Past
47. Distrust
48. The Soul's Farewell to the Body
49. Refuted

1. A Song of Life
2. Nothing but Stones
3. Gethsemane
4. Momus, God of Laughter
5. The Two Glasses
6. What we Need
7. Is it Done?
8. Burdened
9. In the Long Run
10. A Song
11. To Marry or Not to Marry?  A Girl's Reverie

1. "Sweet Danger"
2. A Maiden's Secret
3. A Baby in the House
4. I Told You
5. A Waif
6. One Woman's Plea
7. If
8. Limitless
9. A Fatal Impress
10. Love
11. The Farewell
12. The Kingdom of Love
13. Love will Wane
14. Three-fold
15. Art and Love
16. River and Sea
17. In the Garden
18. When You Go Away
19. In Faith
20. "The Old Moon in the New Moon's Arms"
21. Searching
22. Our Blessings
23. Going Away
24. Be not Weary
25. The Summons
26. Conversion
27. Denied

1. Bohemia
2. Lines from "Maurine"
3. When
4. Sunshine and Shadow
5. The Belle's Soliloquy
6. Beyond