Poems of Optimism
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion (1883), and her autobiography, The Worlds and I was published in 1918 shortly before her death. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school. She married Robert Wilcox. Not long after their marriage, they both became interested in Theosophy, New Thought, and Spiritualism. She made efforts to teach occult things to the world. Her works, filled with positivism, were popular in the New Thought Movement...
Chapters (294)
- POEMS OF OPTIMISM
- CONTENTS
- WAR
- GREATER BRITAIN
- BELGIUM
- KNITTING
- MOBILISATION
- NEUTRAL
- A BOOK FOR THE KING
- THE MEN-MADE GODS
- THE GHOSTS
- THE POET’S THEME
- EUROPE
- AFTER
- THE PEACE ANGEL
- PEACE SHOULD NOT COME
- MISCELLANEOUS
- THE WINDS OF FATE
- BEAUTY
- THE INVISIBLE HELPERS
- TO THE WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA
- REPLIES
- EARTH BOUND
- A SUCCESSFUL MAN
- UNSATISFIED
- SEPARATION
- HE
- SHE
- HE
- SHE
- HE
- SHE
- TO THE TEACHERS OF THE YOUNG
- BEAUTY MAKING
- ON AVON’S BREAST I SAW A STATELY SWAN
- THE LITTLE GO-CART
- I AM RUNNING FORTH TO MEET YOU
- MARTYRS OF PEACE
- HOME
- THE ETERNAL NOW
- IF I WERE A MAN, A YOUNG MAN
- WE MUST SEND THEM OUT TO PLAY
- PROTEST
- REWARD
- THIS IS MY TASK
- THE STATUE
- BEHOLD THE EARTH
- WHAT THEY SAW
- HIS LAST LETTER
- A DIALOGUE
- HE
- SHE
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- A WISH
- JUSTICE
- AN OLD SONG
- OH, POOR, SICK WORLD
- PRAISE DAY
- INTERLUDE
- THE LAND OF THE GONE-AWAY-SOULS
- THE HARP’S SONG
- THE PENDULUM
- AN OLD-FASHIONED TYPE
- THE SWORD
- LOVE AND THE SEASONS
- SPRING
- SUMMER
- AUTUMN
- WINTER
- A NAUGHTY LITTLE COMET
- THE LAST DANCE
- A VAGABOND MIND
- MY FLOWER ROOM
- MY FAITH
- ARROW AND BOW
- IF WE SHOULD MEET HIM
- FAITH
- THE SECRET OF PRAYER
- THE ANSWER
- A VISION
- THE SECOND COMING
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