By the waves of thought, these "Shells" were washed out upon the
shores of imagination, and I gathered them in idle moments.
If they shall give you a few hours enjoyment, it will add to the
pleasure I experienced in making the collection.
ELLA WHEELER.
CONTENTS
TO SECOND EDITION.
Poems.
Our Lives
The Messenger
Idle
Ye Agents
Warned
Life
Stars
Fading
Haunted
Ghosts
Tim's Story
Memory's Garden
Mysteries
What the Winds Told Me
Sometimes
Blind Sorrow
"Be Not Weary"
To Those Who Never Pray
Hung
Compassion
Fame
Her Mother's Beautiful Eyes
Old Times
This World
Going Away
Good-Bye
Jamie
A Mother's Reverie
The Two Glasses
Twilight Thoughts
Only a Kiss
When I Am Dead
Don't Talk When You've Nothing to Say
The Frost Fairy
Florabelle
The Doomed City's Prayer
One Woman's Plea
Decoration Poem
A Baby in the House
Reunion Poem
The People's Favorite
Dream-Time
Lines Written on the Death of James Buell
Under the Willow
Doubting
A Sunset
A Twilight Thought
True Warriors
One of These
A Fancy
Tired
Never
True Love
His Song
When You Go Away
Bleak Weather
The Tale the Robin Told
A Memory
Waiting
Drifting Apart
Once More Together
Once in a While
Beauty
A Plea for Fame
Somewhere
Our Angel
A Summer Idyl
The Musicians
In Vain
Baby Eva
I Shall Not Forget
The Old and the New
Decoration Poem
At Set of Sun
Love Song
Display
At the Window
How
By and By
King and Siren
After
If You Had Been True
Afloat
Roses and Lilies
In Heaven With You
Thou Dost Not Know
A Golden Year
Foreshadowed
Fortune's Wheel
Searching
Daft
Trust
The Common Link
Burned To-day
When I Die
The Unseen Thorn
Father and Child
Under the Moon
Singers
Take My Hand
Disinterred
A Lawyer's Romance
A Summer Day
Song and Maid
Asleep
Two Counts
The Watcher
Life and Death
An Autumn Reverie
Two Lives
In Memoriam
My Love
The Frost Fairy
The Summons
Three Years Old
The Difference
Loves Extravagance
You Will Forget Me
END.