Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Chicago, W. B. Conkey Co. [c1909].   4 p. l., 7-177 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.

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   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.

Contents:

1. Preface
2. Five Kisses
3. The Land Between
4. Aristarchus
5. Love's Mirage
6. The Need of the World
7. The Gulf Stream
8. Forbidden Speech
9. The Ghost
10. Reincarnation
11. A Man's Last Love
12. A Holiday
13. Love's Ways
14. Words and Thoughts
15. Remembered
16. Helen of Troy
17. Lais When Young
18. Lais When Old
19. At Bay
20. Holiday Songs
21. How Will It Be
22. Astrolabus
23. Competition
24. Sleep's Treachery
25. Art Versus Cupid
26. The Revolt of Vashti
27. The Choosing of Esther
28. Honeymoon Scene
29. The Cost
30. Restrospection
31. The House of Life
32. The Voice
33. God's Answer
34. The Edict of the Sex
35. The World Child
36. The Goal
37. On Seeing the House of Julia at Herculaneum
38. A Prayer
39. What is Right Living
40. Justice
41. Time's Gaze
42. The Two Ages
43. Love, Time and Will
44. The Worker and the Work
45. Art Thou Alive
46. Today
47. The Ladder
48. Who Is a Christian
49. The Goal
50. The Spur
51. Awakened
52. Shadows
53. The New Commandment
54. Summer Dreams
55. The Breaking of Chains
56. December
57. The Way
58. The Leader To Be
59. The Greater Love
60. Thank God for Life
61. The Law
62. Time Enough
63. New Year's Day
64. Life Is a Privilege
65. In an Old Art Gallery
66. True Brotherhood
67. The Decadent
68. Lord, Speak Again
69. My Heaven
70. Life
71. God's Kin
72. Conquest
73. The Statue
74. Sirius
75. At Fontainebleau
76. The Masquerade
77. Sympathy
78. Intermediary
79. Life's Car
80. Opportunity
81. The Age of Motored Things
82. New Year
83. Disarmament
84. Existence
85. The Heights
86. The Hymn of the Republic
87. The Radiant Christ
88. The Call
89. A Little Song
90. The Birth of Jealousy
91. Summer's Farewell

 

 
 


NEW THOUGHT PASTELS

92. A Dialogue
93. The Weed
94. Strength
95. Affirm
96. The Chosen
97. The Nameless
98. The Word
99. Assistance
100. Credulity
101. Consciousness
102. The Structure
103. Our Souls
104. The Law
105. Knowledge
106. Give
107. Perfection
108. Fear
109. The Way
110. Understood
111. His Mansion
112. Effect
113. Three Things
114. Obstacles
115. Prayer
116. Climbing
117. "There is No Death, There are no Dead"
118. Realization