Chapter I: Front Matter

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POEMS OF PURPOSE

BY
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

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GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD.
54 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
LONDON
1919

_All rights reserved_

CONTENTS

PAGE
A Good Sport 1
A Son Speaks 5
The Younger Born 9
Happiness 14
Seeking for Happiness 18
The Island of Endless Play 20
The River of Sleep 23
The Things that Count 25
Limitless 27
What They Saw 28
The Convention 32
Protest 35
A Bachelor to a Married Flirt 37
The Superwoman 40
Certitude 43
Compassion 44
Love 45
Three Souls 46
When Love is Lost 49
Occupation 50
The Valley of Fear 53
What would it be? 55
America 57
War Mothers 60
A Holiday 64
The Undertone 66
Gypsying 69
Song of the Road 71
The Faith we Need 73
The Price he Paid 76
Divorced 79
The Revealing Angels 83
The Well-born 87
Sisters of Mine 89
Answer 91
The Graduates 93
The Silent Tragedy 95
The Trinity 99
The Unwed Mother to the Wife 101
Father and Son 104
Husks 107
Meditations 109
The Traveller 113
What Have You Done? 115

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N.B.—_The only volumes of my Poems issued with my approval in the British Empire are published by Messrs. Gay & Hancock_.

_ELLA WHEELER WILCOX_.

A GOOD SPORT