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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