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(Excerpt from Poems of Cheer
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Excerpt from Poems of Cheer
This Volume contains the poems published under the title Poems of Life, with the exception of about half a dozen, which appear in my other volumes. 1 have also added a few new verses.
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Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics) (Delphi Poets Series Book 61)
(The American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox is best remembered ...)
The American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox is best remembered for her inspirational verses, as well as innovative poems tinged with eroticism that were unconventional for her time. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Wilcox’s complete poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wilcox's life and works
* Concise introductions to Wilcox's life and poetry
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Rare poetry collections available in no other collection
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
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* Includes Wilcox's novels
* Features the complete autobiographies - discover Wilcox's literary life
* Includes the autobiography ‘The Worlds and I’, which was published a year before Wilcox’s death – first time in digital print
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Life and Poetry of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
BRIEF INTRODUCTION: ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
The Poetry Collections
DROPS OF WATER
SHELLS
MAURINE AND OTHER POEMS
POEMS OF PASSION
POEMS OF PLEASURE
KINGDOM OF LOVE AND OTHER RECITATIONS
BEAUTIFUL LAND OF NOD
THE SONG OF THE SANDWICH
CUSTER, AND OTHER POEMS
THREE WOMEN
POEMS OF POWER
AROUND THE YEAR WITH ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
POEMS OF SENTIMENT
POEMS OF LOVE
POEMS OF REFLECTION
NEW THOUGHT PASTELS
THE LOVE SONNETS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE
POEMS OF CHEER
POEMS OF PROGRESS AND NEW THOUGHT PASTELS
POEMS OF EXPERIENCE
YESTERDAYS
PICKED POEMS
THE ENGLISHMAN AND OTHER POEMS
POEMS OF OPTIMISM
POEMS OF PURPOSE
SONNETS OF SORROW AND TRIUMPH
HELLO, BOYS!
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Novels
MAL MOULÉE: A NOVEL
THE ADVENTURES OF MISS VOLNEY
AN AMBITIOUS MAN
The Autobiographies
THE HEART OF THE NEW THOUGHT
A WOMAN OF THE WORLD
THE WORLDS AND I
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(20 works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American author and poet ...)
20 works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American author and poet (1850-1919)
This ebook presents a collection of 20 works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents:
- A Woman of the World - Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters
- Custer, and Other Poems
- Hello, Boys!
- Mal Moulée
- Maurine and Other Poems
- New Thought Pastels
- Poems of Cheer
- Poems of Experience
- Poems of Optimism
- Poems of Passion
- Poems of Power
- Poems of Progress
- Poems of Purpose
- Poems of Sentiment
- The Englishman and Other Poems
- The Heart of the New Thought
- The Kingdom of Love
- Three Women
- Wilcox
- Yesterdays
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Custer & Other Poems: “A weed is but an unloved flower.”
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Born on November 5th 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin, Ella...)
Born on November 5th 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin, Ella Wheeler was the youngest of four children. She began to write as a child and by the time she graduated was already well known as a poet throughout Wisconsin. Regarded more as a popular poet than a literary poet her most famous work ‘Solitude’ reflects on a train journey she made where giving comfort to a distressed fellow traveller she wrote how the others grief imposed itself for a time on her ‘Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone’. It was published in 1883 and was immensely popular. The following year, 1884, she married Robert Wilcox. They lived for a time in New York before moving to Connecticut. Their only child, a son, died shortly after birth. Here we publish one of her many poetry books, Custer & Other Poems, that so endeared her to her audience. Ella died of breast cancer on October 30th, 1919.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850-October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. It includes poems such as: Love's Language; Impatience; Individuality; Friendship after Love; Reunited; What Shall We Do; Through the Valley; the Duet and much more.
(Excerpt from Poems of Problems
Oh forgive all sin. God's...)
Excerpt from Poems of Problems
Oh forgive all sin. God's work, to feel Our duty is done. It is easy to be religious this way. Easy to pray.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet.
Background
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was the youngest daughter of Marius Hartwell and Sarah (Pratt) Wheeler. She was born on November 5, 1850 in Johnstown Center, Wis. , not far from Madison. A few years before her birth, her father, a teacher of the violin, dancing, and deportment in Thetford, Vt. , had emigrated to Wisconsin, where after the failure of financial ventures he resumed his teaching of dancing. It was, however, to her mother, also of Vermont stock, that Ella Wheeler Wilcox attributed her literary talents. Interest in writing manifested itself very early.
Education
Her family, hoping to encourage her in her literary work, sent her for a year (1867 - 68) to the University of Wisconsin, but she found her work there of little value to her.
Career
She wrote a novel for the amusement of her sisters before she was ten, and read eagerly such publications as the New York Mercury and the New York Ledger, and the books of such authors as Mary Jane Holmes, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, and "Ouida. " Having had an essay published in the New York Mercury in her early teens, she offered other essays in various competitions, won a number of prizes, and began to send out her poems, the first of which were ridiculed by the editor of the Mercury. The first poem published under her name appeared in Waverly Magazine, and her first cash payment came from Leslie's. She continued to write at least two poems a day, many of them being accepted for publication, and by the time she was eighteen she was making a substantial contribution to the family income. For a few months she worked on a trade paper in Milwaukee. Her first book of poems, Drops of Water (1872), a collection of temperance verses, was followed by Shells (1873), and Maurine (1876), a narrative poem. Her first success, however, came with the rejection of Poems of Passion by Jansen and McClurg of Chicago on the ground that the volume was immoral. The story appeared in the Milwaukee newspapers, was widely reprinted, and served to insure the book a wide sale when it was published in 1883 by another company. In 1891 she with her husband built a bungalow at Short Beach, Connecticut, where they spent their summers. They traveled widely, in the Orient as well as Europe. They both constantly engaged in private charitable enterprises. Mrs. Wilcox's literary activities did not cease with her marriage. She published some twenty volumes (for the most part, poetry) after 1884, wrote a daily poem for a newspaper syndicate for several years, and contributed frequent essays to the Cosmopolitan and other magazines. In 1901 she was commissioned by the New York American to go to London and write a poem on the death of Queen Victoria. In 1913 she was presented at the Court of St. James's. During 1918 she toured the army camps in France, reciting her poems and delivering talks on sexual problems. As a result of over-exertion. she fell ill in the spring of 1919. After spending some time in a nursing home in Bath, England, she was brought back to the United States. She died three months later at Short Beach, Connecticut.
Both she and her husband believed in the possibility of communication with the dead and were frequent attendants at spiritualist séances. After her husband's death she made repeated efforts to communicate with him, and believed that she finally succeeded in doing so by means of the ouija board. She was also interested in theosophy, maintaining that she had learned self-control from an East Indian monk.
Connections
On May 1, 1884, she was married to Robert Marius Wilcox, a manufacturer of works of art in silver, and went to live in Meriden, Connecticut. A son, born on May 27, 1887, lived only a few hours.