Poetical works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Edinburgh : W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1917. xv, 526 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. NOTES: Includes indexes. Contains: Poems of Passion, Poems of Pleasure, Poems of Life, Poems of Love, Poems of Reflection, Miscellaneous Poems, Maurine, Poems of Hope, and Poems of Cheer.

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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:

1. A Baby in the House
2. A Dream
3. A Fable
4. A Face
5. A Fatal Impress
6. A Girl's Faith
7. A Golden Day
8. A Grey Mood
9. A Leaf
10. A Maiden's Secret
11. A March Snow
12. A Meeting
13. A Picture
14. A Pin
15. A Plea
16. A Reminiscence
17. A Sailor's Wife
18. A Sculptor
19. A Song
20. A Song of Life
21. A Waif
22. A Waltz Quadrille
23. Absence
24. Achievement
25. Actor, The
26. Ad Finem
27. Advice
28. Aesthetic
29. After the Battles are Over
30. All for Me
31. All Mad
32. An Afternoon
33. An Answer ["If all the year was summer-time,"]
34. An Answer ["If one should bring a rose that had been fair,"]
35. An Old Comrade
36. An Old Fan
37. And They Are Dumb
38. Angel or Demon
39. Answered [II]
40. Answered Prayers
41. Applause
42. Aquileia
43. Art and Heart
44. Art and Love
45. Artist and Man
46. "Artist's Life"
47. As by Fire
48. At Eleusis
49. At an Old Drawer
50. At the Window
51. Attraction
52. Babyland
53. Be Not Weary
54. Beautiful Blue Danube, The
55. Beautiful Land of Nod, The
56. Belief
57. Belle's Soliloquy, The
58. Beppo
59. Beyond
60. Bird of Hope
61. Birth of the Opal, The
62. Blase'
63. Bleak Weather
64. Bohemia
65. Bound and Free
66. Burdened
67. But One
68. By and Bye
69. "Carlos"
70. Change ["Changed? Yes I will confess it--"]
71. Change, The ["She leaned out into the soft June weather"]
72. Christian's New Year Prayer, The
73. City, The
74. Common Lot, The
75. Communism
76. Comrades
77. Constancy
78. Contentment
79. Conversion ["I have lived this life as the sceptic lives it"]
80. Conversion ["When this world's pleasures for my soul sufficed,"]
81. Coquette, The
82. Courage
83. Creation
84. Creed, The
85. Daft
86. Dawn
87. Deathless
88. Delilah
89. Denied
90. Desire
91. Desolation
92. Difference, The
93. Disappointed, The
94. Distrust
95. Dreams
96. Drought
97. Duet, The
98. Dust-Sealed
99. Earnestness
100. Engine, The
101. Entre-Acte Reveries
102. Fading ["All in the beautiful Autumn weather"]
103. Fading ["She sits beside the window. All who pass"]
104. Faith
105. Farewell, The
106. Farewell of Clarimonde, The
107. Fault of the Age, The
108. Finis
109. Fishing
110. Fleeing Away
111. Floods
112. Foes
113. Friendship
114. Friendship After Love
115. From the Grave
116. Gethsemane
117. Ghosts
118. God's Measure
119. Going Away
120. Gracia
121. Guerdon
122. Guilo
123. Half Fledged
124. Helena
125. Her Love
126. Her Reverie
127. Hidden Gems
128. I Dream
129. I Told You
130. I Will Be Worthy of It
131. Idler's Song
132. If ["If I were sent to represent"]
133. If ["Dear love, if you and I could sail away"]
134. If I Should Die
135. Illogical
136. Immortality
137. Impatience
138. In Faith
139. In the Crowd
140. In the Garden
141. In the Long Run
142. In the Night
143. Inborn
144. Independence Ode
145. Individuality
146. Inevitable
147. Instructor, The
148. Into Space
149. Is It Done
150. Isaura
151. It Might Have Been
152. Joy
153. Keep Out the Past
154. King and Siren, The
155. Kingdom of Love, The
156. La Mort d'Amour
157. Lady of Tears, The
158. Land of Content, The
159. Law, The
160. Lay It Away
161. Lean Down
162. Let Me Lean Hard
163. Let Them Go
164. Leudemanns-on-the-River
165. Life ["I feel the great immensity of life"]
166. Life ["Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee,"]
167. Life and I
168. Life Is Too Short
169. Life's Journey
170. Limitless
171. Lippo
172. Listen
173. Little Bird, The
174. Little Blue Hood
175. Little Queen
176. Lost
177. Lost Garden, The
178. Lost Land, The
179. Love
180. Love Is Enough
181. Love Much
182. Love Song
183. Love Will Wane
184. Love's Burial
185. Love's Coming
186. Love's Language
187. Love's Sleep
188. Master Hand, The
189. Maurine
190. Midsummer
191. Misalliance
192. Mockery
193. Momus, God of Laughter
194. Mother-in-Law, The
195. Mother's Loss
196. Musicians, The
197. My Friend
198. My Grave
199. My Heritage
200. My Home
201. My Ship
202. My Vision
203. Necessity
204. New and Old
205. New and Old Centuries, The
206. New Year
207. New Year
208. Night
209. No Classes!
210. No Spring
211. Noblesse Oblige
212. Not Quite the Same
213. Nothing But Stones
214. Nothing New
215. Nothing Remains
216. Now
217. Ocean of Song, The
218. Old and New
219. Old Moon in the New Moon's Arms, The
220. Old Stage Queen, The
221. One of Us Two
222. One Woman's Plea
223. Only a Simple Rhyme
224. Only Dreams
225. Optimism
226. Our Blessings
227. Over the Alley
228. Over the Banisters
229. Over the May Hill
230. Pain's Proof
231. Past, The
232. Peace and Love
233. Peace of the Goal
234. Penalty
235. Perfectness
236. Perished
237. Philosophy
238. Platonic
239. Plea to Science
240. Poems of the Week
241. Possession
242. Prayer
243. Presumption
244. Progress
245. Punished, The
246. Queries
247. Recompense
248. Red Carnations
249. Refuted
250. Regret
251. Resolve
252. Resolve
253. Respite
254. Response
255. Reunited
256. River and Sea ["Under the light of the silver moon"]
257. River and Sea ["We stood by the river that swept"]
258. Romney
259. Room Beneath the Rafters, The
260. Saddest Hour, The
261. Sea-Breeze and the Scarf, The
262. Searching
263. Secret Thoughts
264. Secrets
265. Show Me the Way
266. Sing to Me
267. Sleep and Death
268. Slipping Away
269. Snowed Under
270. So Long in Coming
271. Solitude
272. Song (From "Maurine") ["O praise me not with thy lips, dear one!"]
273. Song ["O thou, mine other, stronger part!"]
274. Song of the Spirit
275. Sonnet ["Methinks oft-times my heart is like some bee,"]
276. Sonnet, The ["Alone it stands in Poesy's fair land,"]
277. Soul's Farewell to the Body, The
278. South, The
279. Speech of Silence, The
280. Story, The
281. Summer Song
282. Summons, The
283. Sunset
284. Sunshine and Shadow
285. Surrender
286. Sweet Danger
287. There Comes a Time
288. Thimble Islands
289. Three and One
290. Three-fold
291. Through Dim Eyes
292. Through Tears
293. Through the Valley
294. Time and Love
295. Tiger, The
296. Tired
297. To Marry or Not to Marry
298. To the West
299. Trio, The
300. True Culture
301. True Knight, The
302. Twilight Thoughts
303. Twin-born
304. Two
305. Two Glasses, The
306. Two Loves
307. Two Prayers
308. Two Sat Down
309. Two Sinners
310. Two Sunsets
311. Unattained
312. Unrest
313. Until the Night
314. Upon the Sand
315. Uselessness
316. Voluptuary, The
317. Warning
318. Way of It, The
319. What Gain
320. What Happens
321. What Love Is
322. What Shall We Do
323. What We Need
324. Whatever Is--Is Best
325. Wheel of the Breast, The
326. When
327. When I Am Dead
328. When You Go Away
329. Wherefore
330. Wild Blue Bells, The
331. Will
332. Winter Rain
333. Wishes for a Little Girl
334. Woman
335. World, The
336. Worldly Wisdom
337. Year, The
338. Year Outgrows the Spring, The
339. You Will Forget Me