POEMS OF PLEASURE.
Many of the best poetic creations of Ella Wheeler Wilcox are to be found in this charming collection. Besides many admirable specimens of romantic verse, there are several poems of rare beauty, dealing with everyday topics. Every line of these poems pulsates with life and throbs with emotion.
"Mrs. Wilcox is an artist with a touch that reminds one of Byron's impassionate strains."—Paris Register.
"Everything that she writes has the mark of her unique, powerful personality impressed upon it, and this volume will not be a disappointment to those acquainted with her."—New York Press.
"The book is replete with good things and, though a book of fewer than two hundred pages, it is worth whole reams of the sentimentalism nourishing under the misnomer of literature."—Western Bookseller.
"Mrs. Wilcox takes her raptures with a full heart, reveling in blisses and draining sorrows deeply; not morbidly but hopefully. Skeptic as she is of all formal creeds, she does not become cynical or pessimistic, but makes a glad religion out of evolution and human fellowship."—New York Daily News.
POEMS OF PASSION.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is known as the greatest living poet of passion. To her the human heart seems to have revealed its mysteries, for she has the power to picture love in all its moods and variations as no other has done since Byron.
"Only a woman of genius could produce such a remarkable work."—Illustrated London News.
Beside many others, there are some fifty poems which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated "the grand passion"—love. Among the most popular poems in the book are Delilah, Ad Finem, Conversion, and Communism. These vibrant poems have attained a reputation that is above and beyond criticism.