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    Poems Of Passion: "With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
    Poems Of Passion: "With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
    Poems Of Passion: "With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
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    Poems Of Passion: "With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."

    By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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    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, Poems Of Passion, that so endeared her to her audience. Ella died of breast cancer on October 30th, 1919.

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    Release dateNov 12, 2013
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    Poems Of Passion: "With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."

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      Poems Of Passion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

      Poems of Passion, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

      Oh, you who read some song that I have sung,

      What know you of the soul from whence it sprung?

      Dost dream the poet ever speaks aloud

      His secret thought unto the listening crowd?

      Go take the murmuring sea-shell from the shore:

      You have its shape, its color and no more.

      It tells not one of those vast mysteries

      That lie beneath the surface of the seas.

      Our songs are shells, cast out by-waves of thought;

      Here, take them at your pleasure; but think not

      You've seen beneath the surface of the waves,

      Where lie our shipwrecks and our coral caves.

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at the world through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide to their lives.  

      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.  It was around this time they developed an interest in spiritualism which for Ella would develop further into an interest in the occult.  In later years this and works on positive thinking would occupy much of her writing.

      On Robert’s death in 1916 she spent months waiting for word from him from ‘the other side’ which never came. 

      In 1918 she published her autobiography The Worlds And I.

      Ella died of cancer on October 30th, 1919.

      Index Of Poems

      Preface

      Love's Language

      Impatience

      Communism

      The Common Lot

      Individuality

      Friendship after Love

      Queries

      Upon the Sand

      Reunited

      What Shall We Do?

      The Beautiful Blue Danube

      Answered

      Through the Valley

      But One

      Guilo

      The Duet

      Little Queen

      Wherefore?

      Delilah

      Love Song

      Time and Love

      Change

      Desolation

      Isaura

      The Coquette

      Not Quite the Same

      New and Old

      From the Grave

      A Waltz-Quadrille

      Beppo

      Tired

      The Speech of Silence

      Conversion

      Love's Coming

      Old and New

      Perfectness

      Attraction

      Gracia

      Ad Finem

      Bleak Weather

      An Answer

      You Will Forget Me

      The Farewell of Clarimonde

      The Trio

      MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

      The Lost Garden

      Art and Heart

      Mockery

      As by Fire

      If I Should Die

      Mésalliance

      Response

      Drought

      The Creed

      Progress

      My Friend

      Creation

      Red Carnations

      Life is Too Short

      A Sculptor

      Beyond

      The Saddest Hour

      Show Me the Way

      My Heritage

      Resolve

      At Eleusis

      Courage

      Solitude

      The Year Outgrows the Spring

      The Beautiful Land of Nod

      The Tiger

      Only a Simple Rhyme

      I Will Be Worthy of It

      Sonnet

      Regret

      Let Me Lean Hard

      Penalty

      Sunset

      The Wheel of the Breast

      A Meeting

      Earnestness

      A Picture

      Twin-Born

      Floods

      A Fable

      Ella Wheeler Wilcox – A Short Biography

      Ella Wheeler Wilcox – A Concise Bibliography

      PREFACE

      Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated the grand passion - love. A few of those are of an extremely fiery character.

      When I issued my collection known as Maurine, and Other Poems, I

      purposely omitted all save two or three of these. I had been frequently

      accused of writing only sentimental verses; and I took pleasure and

      pride in presenting to the public a volume which contained more than one

      hundred poems upon other than sentimental topics. But no sooner was the book published than letters of regret came to me from friends and

      strangers, and from all quarters of the globe, asking why this or that

      love poem had been omitted. These regrets were repeated to me by so many people that I decided to collect and issue these poems in a small volume to be called Poems of Passion. By the word Passion I meant the grand passion of love. To those who take exception to the title of the book I would suggest an early reference to Webster's definitions of the word.

      Since this volume has caused so much agitation throughout the entire

      country, and even sent a tremor across the Atlantic into the Old World,

      I beg leave to make a few statements concerning some of the poems.

      The excitement of mingled horror and amaze seems to center upon four

      poems, namely: Delilah, Ad Finem, Conversion, and Communism.

      Delilah was written and first published in 1877. I had been reading

      history, and became stirred by the power of such women as Aspasia and

      Cleopatra over such grand men as Antony, Socrates, and Pericles. Under

      the influence of this feeling I dashed off Delilah, which I meant to

      be an expression of the powerful fascination of such a woman upon the

      memory of a man, even as he neared the hour of death. If the poem is

      immoral, then the history which inspired it is immoral. I consider it my

      finest effort.

      Ad Finem was written in 1878. I think there are few women of strong

      character and affections who cannot, from either experience or

      observation, understand the violent intensity of regret and despair

      which sometimes takes possession of the human heart after the loss by

      death, fate, or the force of circumstances, of some one very dear.

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