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POEMS OF CHEER
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
CONTENTS
Worth while
The House of Life
A Song of Life
Prayer
In the
Long Run
As you go through Life
Two Sunsets
Unrest
Artist's
life
Nothing but Stones
Inevitable
The Ocean of Song
"It might
have been"
Momus, God of Laughter
I Dream
The Sonnet
The
Past
A Dream
Uselessness
Will
Winter Rain
Life
Burdened

Let them go
Five Kisses
Retrospection
Helena
Nothing
Remains
Comrades
What Gain?
To the West
The Land of
Content
Warning
After the Battles are over
And they are dumb

Night
All for me
Into Space
Through Dim Eyes
The Punished

Half Fledged
The Year
The Unattained
In the crowd
Life and
I

Guerdon
Snowed Under
"Leudemanns-on-the-river"
Little
Blue Hood
No Spring
Midsummer
A Reminiscence
A Girl's
Faith
Two
Slipping Away
Is it done?
A Leaf
Aesthetic

Poems of the Week
Ghosts
Fleeing away
All mad
Hidden Gems

By-and-bye
Over the May Hill
Foes
Friendship
Two sat
down
Bound and free
Aquileia
Wishes for a little girl
Romney

My Home
To marry or not to marry?
An Afternoon
River and
Sea
What happens?
Possession
This Volume contains the poems published under the title "Poems of
Life," with the exception of about half a dozen, which appear in my
other volumes. I have also added a few new verses.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
April 12th, 1910.
I step across the mystic border-land,
And look upon the
wonder-world of Art.
How beautiful, how beautiful its hills!
And
all its valleys, how surpassing fair!

The winding paths that lead up to the heights
Are polished by the
footsteps of
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