Transcribed from the 1919 Gay and Hancock edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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POEMS OF PURPOSE

BY
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

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]

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