PREFACE LOVE'S LANGUAGE

CONTENTS

THE LAND BETWEEN

LOVE'S MIRAGE

THE NEED OF THE WORLD

THE GULF STREAM

REMEMBERED

HELEN OF TROY ON THE ISLE OF CRANAE

LAIS WHEN YOUNG

LAIS WHEN OLD

EXISTENCE

HOLIDAY SONGS I

ASTROLABIUS (THE CHILD OF ABELARD AND HELOISE) I

COMPLETION

SLEEP'S TREACHERY

ART VERSUS CUPID

THE REVOLT OF VASHTI (FROM THE DRAMA OF MIZPAH)

THE CHOOSING OF ESTHER (FROM THE DRAMA OF MIZPAH)

HONEYMOON SCENE (FROM THE DRAMA OF MIZPAH)

THE COST

THE VOICE

GOD'S ANSWER

THE EDICT OF THE SEX

THE WORLD-CHILD

THE HEIGHTS

ON SEEING 'THE HOUSE OF JULIA' AT HERCULANEUM

A PRAYER

WHAT IS RIGHT LIVING?

JUSTICE

TIME'S GAZE

THE WORKER AND THE WORK

ART THOU ALIVE?

TO-DAY

THE LADDER

WHO IS A CHRISTIAN?

THE GOAL

THE SPUR

AWAKENED!

SHADOWS

THE NEW COMMANDMENT

SUMMER DREAMS

THE BREAKING OF CHAINS

DECEMBER

'THE WAY'

THE LEADER TO BE

THE GREATER LOVE

THANK GOD FOR LIFE

TIME ENOUGH

NEW YEAR'S DAY

LIFE IS A PRIVILEGE

IN AN OLD ART GALLERY

TRUE BROTHERHOOD

THE DECADENT

LORD, SPEAK AGAIN

MY HEAVEN

LIFE

GOD'S KIN

CONQUEST

THE STATUE

SIRIUS

AT FONTAINEBLEAU

THE MASQUERADE

SYMPATHY

INTERMEDIARY

LIFE'S CAR

OPPORTUNITY

THE AGE OF MOTORED THINGS

NEW YEAR

DISARMAMENT

THE CALL

A LITTLE SONG

A DIALOGUE

THE WEED

STRENGTH

AFFIRM

THE CHOSEN

THE NAMELESS

THE WORD

ASSISTANCE

'CREDULITY'

CONSCIOUSNESS

THE STRUCTURE

OUR SOULS

THE LAW

KNOWLEDGE

GIVE

PERFECTION

FEAR

THE WAY

UNDERSTOOD

HIS MANSION

EFFECT

THREE THINGS

OBSTACLES

PRAYER

CLIMBING

'THERE IS NO DEATH, THERE ARE NO DEAD'

REALISATION

BY

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

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1913

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Any edition of my poems published in England by any firm except Messrs. Gay and Hancock is pirated and not authentic.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

April 12, 1910.