Poems of Passion

Poems of Passion  (1883)  by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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.

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

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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