Project Gutenberg 2002-05-01 Public domain in the USA. 86 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 1850 1919 Wheeler, Ella Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels 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. Transcribed from the 1913 Gay and Hancock edition by David Price "Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a collection of poetry written in the early 20th century. The verses explore themes of love, existence, societal issues, and the human experience, intertwining reflections on personal growth and a broader philosophical outlook on life. The opening of the collection features a preface and several poems that set the tone for the themes that will be explored throughout. It begins with an invocation of "Love's Language," questioning how love expresses itself, suggesting its complexity and depth. This is followed by the poem "The Land Between," which speaks of the connection between souls that transcend earthly bounds, and "Love's Mirage," where the pursuit of love is depicted as both an alluring vision and a painful reality. The early poems present a tapestry of emotive expressions—melding the idealistic with the painful—and establish love's central role in both personal fulfillment and universal struggles, inviting readers to reflect upon their own experiences and aspirations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en American poetry PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 193339 193245 2024-10-02T07:14:29.411247 2023-10-02T06:42:47.630171 text/html text/html 195865 2014-07-27T08:22:36 text/html 379851 2014-07-27T08:24:36 text/html application/zip 293381 2024-10-02T07:14:40.296176 application/epub+zip 289449 2024-10-02T07:14:32.870192 application/epub+zip 104425 2024-10-02T07:14:31.159199 application/epub+zip 397441 2024-10-02T07:14:43.981149 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 341548 2024-10-02T07:14:37.223196 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 156891 2022-09-02T08:42:34.314986 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 150034 149989 2024-10-02T07:14:28.364230 2023-10-02T06:42:46.686162 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 149751 2014-07-27T08:15:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 55654 2014-07-27T08:24:36 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 20321 2024-10-02T07:14:44.133137 application/rdf+xml 9992 2024-10-02T07:14:31.269201 image/jpeg 2390 2024-10-02T07:14:31.220187 image/jpeg 276287 2024-10-02T07:14:29.436300 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia