Poems of Passion

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Poems of Passion
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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Contents

[edit] Prelude

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 color 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.

[edit] Preface

[edit] Part I - Poems of Passion

  1. Love's Language
  2. Impatience
  3. Communism
  4. The Common Lot
  5. Individuality
  6. Friendship After Love
  7. Queries
  8. Upon the Sand
  9. Reunited
  10. What Shall We Do?
  11. The Beautiful Blue Danube
  12. Answered
  13. Through the Valley
  14. But One
  15. Guilo
  16. The Duet
  17. Little Queen
  18. Wherefore?
  19. Delilah
  20. Love Song
  21. Time and Love
  22. Change
  23. Desolation
  24. Isaura
  25. The Coquette
  26. New and Old
  27. Not Quite the Same
  28. From the Grave
  29. A Waltz-Quadrille
  30. Beppo
  31. Tired
  32. The Speech of Silence
  33. Conversion
  34. Love's Coming
  35. Old and New
  36. Perfectness
  37. Attraction
  38. Gracia
  39. Aad Finem
  40. Bleak Weather
  41. An Answer
  42. You Will Forget Me
  43. The Farewell of Clarimonde
  44. The Trio

[edit] Part II - Miscellanous Poems

  1. The Lost Garden
  2. Art and Heart
  3. Mockery
  4. As By Fire
  5. If I Should Die
  6. Mesalliance
  7. Response
  8. Drouth
  9. The Creed
  10. Progress
  11. My Friend
  12. Creation
  13. Red Carnations
  14. Life Is Too Short
  15. A Sculptor
  16. Beyond
  17. The Saddest Hour
  18. Show Me the Way
  19. My Heritage
  20. Resolve
  21. At Eleusis
  22. Courage
  23. Solitude
  24. The Year Outgrows the Spring
  25. The Beautiful Land of Nod
  26. The Tiger
  27. Only a Simple Rhyme
  28. I Will Be Worthy of It
  29. Sonnet
  30. Regret
  31. Let Me Lean Hard
  32. Penalty
  33. Sunset
  34. The Wheel of the Breast
  35. A Meeting
  36. Earnestness
  37. A Picture
  38. Twin-Born
  39. Floods
  40. A Fable


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