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Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels

Transcribed from the 1913 Gay and Hancock edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org <h1>POEMS OF PROGRESS AND NEW THOUGHT PASTELS</h1> BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX <ANTIMG alt="Decorative graphic" title= "Decorative graphic" src="images/tps.jpg" /> GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD. 12 AND 13 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN LONDON 1913 [All rights reserved] <div class="gapspace"> </div> p. ivAny edition of my poems published in England by any firm except Messrs. Gay and Hancock is pirated and not authentic. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. April 12, 1910. <h2>p. vPREFACE LOVE’S LANGUAGE</h2> 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, p. viTo 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. <h2>p. viiCONTENTS</h2> <table> <tr> <td>  </td> <td>PAGE </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Preface </td> <td>v </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Land Between </td> <td>1 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Love’s Mirage </td> <td>3 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Need of the World </td> <td>4 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Gulf Stream </td> <td>7 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Remembered </td> <td>8 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Helen of Troy </td> <td>9 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lais when Young </td> <td>11 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lais when Old </td> <td>12 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Existence </td> <td>13 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Holiday Songs </td> <td>15 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Astrolabius </td> <td>18 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Completion </td> <td>21 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sleep’s Treachery </td> <td>24 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Art versus Cupid </td> <td>25 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>p. viiiThe Revolt of Vashti </td> <td>33 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Choosing of Esther </td> <td>37 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Honeymoon Scene </td> <td>42 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Cost </td> <td>49 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Voice </td> <td>52 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>God’s Answer </td> <td>55 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Edict of the Sex </td> <td>56 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The World-child </td> <td>59 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Heights </td> <td>61 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>On seeing ‘The House of Julia’ at Herculaneum </td> <td>63 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Prayer </td> <td>64 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>What is Right Living? </td> <td>66 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Justice </td> <td>67 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Time’s Gaze </td> <td>68 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Worker and the Work </td> <td>70 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Art thou Alive? </td> <td>72 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>To-day </td> <td>74 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Ladder </td> <td>76 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Who is a Christian? </td> <td>78 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Goal </td> <td>80 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Spur </td> <td>82 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>p. ixAwakened! </td> <td>84 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shadows </td> <td>86 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The New Commandment </td> <td>88 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Summer Dreams </td> <td>90 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Breaking of Chains </td> <td>92 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>December </td> <td>94 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>‘The Way’ </td> <td>96 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Leader to be </td> <td>98 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Greater Love </td> <td>100 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Thank God for Life </td> <td>102 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Time Enough </td> <td>104 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>New Year’s Day </td> <td>106 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Life is a Privilege </td> <td>108 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>In an Old Art Gallery </td> <td>110 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>True Brotherhood </td> <td>111 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Decadent </td> <td>112 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lord, speak again </td> <td>113 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>My Heaven </td> <td>116 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Life </td> <td>118 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>God’s Kin </td> <td>120 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Conquest </td> <td>121 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Statue </td> <td>122 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sirius </td> <td>124 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>At Fontainebleau </td> <td>128 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Masquerade </td> <td>129 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sympathy </td> <td>131 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Intermediary </td> <td>133 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Life’s Car </td> <td>135 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Opportunity </td> <td>135 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Age of Motored Things </td> <td>136 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>New Year </td> <td>136 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Disarmament </td> <td>140 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Call </td> <td>141 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Little Song </td> <td>142 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">NEW THOUGHT PASTELS </td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Dialogue </td> <td>145 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Weed </td> <td>147 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Strength </td> <td>148 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Affirm </td> <td>149 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Chosen </td> <td>150 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Nameless </td> <td>152 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Word </td> <td>153 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Assistance </td> <td>155 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>‘Credulity’ </td> <td>156 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Consciousness </td> <td>157 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Structure </td> <td>158 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Our Souls </td> <td>159 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Law </td> <td>160 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Knowledge </td> <td>161 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Give </td> <td>163 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Perfection </td> <td>164 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Fear </td> <td>165 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Way </td> <td>166 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Understood </td> <td>167 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>His Mansion </td> <td>168 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Effect </td> <td>169 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Three Things </td> <td>170 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Obstacles </td> <td>171 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Prayer </td> <td>172 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Climbing </td> <td>173 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>‘There is no Death, There are no Dead’ </td> <td>174 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Realisation </td> <td>176 </td> </tr> </table> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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