Maurine. by Ella Wheeler Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, 1876. 224 p. 19 cm

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DEDICATION:
APPRECIATING THE ENCOURAGING SYMPATHY AND KIND
INTEREST MANIFESTED IN THIS WORK
BY
WM. P. MERRILL
AND
WM. E. CRAMER,
IT IS MOST GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO THEM
BY
THE AUTHOR.

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PREFACE.

I'd rather have my verses win
A place in common people's hearts;
Who, toiling through the strife and din
Of life's great thoroughfares and marts,
May read some line my hand has penned;
Some simple verse, not fine, or grand,
But what their hearts can understand,
And hold me henceforth as a friend--
I'd rather win such quiet fame,
Than by some fine thought, polished so
But those of learn-ed minds would know
Just what the meaning of my song,
To have the critics sound my name
In high-flown phrases, loud and long.
I sing not for the critics ear,
But for the masses.  If they hear
Despite the turmoil, din, and strife,
Some least low note that gladdens life,
I shall be wholly satisfied,
Though critics to the end deride.
                                                      E.W.

INDEX

1. MAURINE, PART FIRST,
2.         "          PART SECOND,
3.         "          PART THIRD,
4.         "          PART FOURTH,
5.         "          PART FIFTH,
6.         "          PART SIXTH,
7.         "          PART SEVENTH,
8. SOUL OF AMERICA
9. THE GOSSIPS
10. MOTHER LOSS
11. NOW THE DAYS ARE GROWING LONGER
12. ALL THE WORLD
13. RIVER AND SEA
14. THE COMMON PEOPLE
15. OUR BLESSINGS
16. A FRAGMENT
17. MISJUDGED
18. THE MANIAC
19. THE CHANGE
20. RELICS
21. THE DREAMER
22. NORINE
23. FLOWN AWAY
24. THE WORLD
25. A POEM
26. LOST
27. UPON THE WAY
28. MY VISION
29. RESIGNED
30. TWO JUNES
31. BLESS THE BABIES
32. SLANDER
33. THE VOLUPTUARY
34. PRINCE OF THE WALTZERS
35. AN OLD MAN'S VIEW
36. DYING YEAR
37. PLEA TO SCIENCE
38. TWO SEASONS
39. QUESTIONING
40. THE CHERUB YEAR
41. SWEETHEART
42. MY LADY
43. THE BELLE OF THE SEASON
44. THREE AND ONE
45. THROUGH TEARS
46. MYSELF