Poems of Progress - Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919 (Project Gutenberg, 2002)
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.
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Keywords: American poetry