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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 the great.?The mountain-peaks stand very near to God:?The chosen few whose feet have trod thereon?Have talked with Him, and with the angels walked.
Here are no sounds of discord--no profane?Or senseless gossip of unworthy things -?Only the songs of chisels and of pens,?Of busy brushes, and ecstatic strains?Of souls surcharged with music most divine.?Here is no idle sorrow, no poor grief?For any day or object left behind -?For time is counted precious, and herein?Is such complete abandonment