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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.?To give expression to his painful joy,
To voice the phases of his joyful pain,?He rings the changes on the poet's strain.?Yet not in epic, epigram or verse?Can Love the passion of his heart rehearse.?All speech, all language, is inadequate,?There are no words with Love commensurate.
THE LAND BETWEEN
Between the little Here and larger Yonder,
There is a realm (or so one day I read)?Where faithful spirits love-enchained may wander,
Till some remembering soul from earth has fled.?Then, reunited, they go forth afar,?From sphere to