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This etext was produced from the 1913 Gay and Hancock edition by
David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
POEMS OF PROGRESS
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Contents:
Preface
The Land Between
Love's Mirage
The Need of the World
The Gulf Stream
Remembered
Helen of Troy
Lais when Young
Lais when Old
Existence
Holiday Songs
Astrolabius
Completion
Sleep's Treachery
Art versus Cupid
The Revolt of Vashti
The Choosing of Esther
Honeymoon Scene
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
PREFACE: LOVE'S LANGUAGE
When silence flees before the voice of Love,
Of what expression does that god approve?
Is dulcet song or flowing verse his choice,
Or stately prose, made regal by his voice?
Speaks Love in couplets, or in epics grand?
And is Love humble, or does he command?
There is no language that Love does not speak:
To-day commanding and to-morrow meek,
One hour laconic and the next verbose,
With hope triumphant and with doubt morose,
His varying moods all forms of speech employ.
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