W. B. Conkey Company
Publishers--Chicago
1883
[Illustration: Picture of Ella Wheeler Wilcox]
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OTHER BOOKS
by
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
THREE WOMEN
POEMS OF POWER
MAURINE
POEMS OF PASSION
POEMS OF PLEASURE
KINGDOM OF LOVE AND OTHER POEMS
AN ERRING WOMAN'S LOVE
EVERY-DAY THOUGHTS
MEN WOMEN AND EMOTIONS
AN AMBITIOUS MAN
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF NOD
AROUND THE YEAR WITH ELLA
WHEELER WILCOX A Birthday Book
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_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_.
[Illustration: THE POET'S SONG]