Poems of Passion

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Oh, you who read some song that I have sung,
What know you of the soul from whence it sprung?
Dost dream the poet ever speaks aloud
His secret thought unto the listening crowd?
Go take the murmuring sea-shell from the shore:
You have its shape, its color and no more.
It tells not one of those vast mysteries
That lie beneath the surface of the seas.
Our songs are shells, cast out by-waves of thought;
Here, take them at your pleasure; but think not
You've seen beneath the surface of the waves,
Where lie our shipwrecks and our coral caves

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Content

1. Preface

• Poems of Passion

1. Love's Language
2. Impatience
3. Communism
4. The Common Lot
5. Individuality
6. Friendship after Love
7. Queries
8. Upon the Sand
9. Reunited
10. What Shall We Do?
11. "The Beautiful Blue Danube"
12. Answered
13. Through the Valley
14. But One
15. Guilo
16. The Duet
17. Little Queen
18. Wherefore
19. Delilah
20. Love Song
21. Time and Love
22. Change
23. Desolation
24. Isaura
25. Not Quite the Same
26. From the Grave
27. A Waltz-Quadrille
28. Beppo
29. Tired
30. The Speech of Silence
31. Conversion
32. Love's Coming
33. Old and New
34. Perfectness
35. Bleak Weather
36. Attraction
37. Gracia
38. Ad Finem
39. New and Old
40. The Trio
41. An Answer
42. You Will Forget Me
43. The Farewell of Clarimonde

*Miscellanous Poems

1. The Lost Garden
2. Art and Heart
3. As By Fire
4. If I Should Die
5. Misalliance
6. Response
7. Drougth
8. The Creed
9. Progress
10. My Friend
11. Red Carnations
12. Life is Too Short
13. A Sculptor
14. Creation
15. Beyond
16. The Saddest Hour
17. Show Me the Way
18. My Heritage
19. Resolve
20. At Eleusis
21. Courage
22. Solitude
23. The Year Outgrows the Spring
24. The Beautiful Land of Nod
25. The Tiger
26. Only a Simple Rhyme
27. I Will be Worthy of It
28. Sonnet
29. Let Me Lean Hard
30. Penalty
31. Sunset
32. The Wheel of the Breast
33. A Meeting
34. Earnestness
35. A Picture
36. Mockery
37. Twin-Born
38. Floods
39. Regret
40. A Fable