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The collection is also called Poems of Optimism. It contains: War; Greater Britain, Belgium, Knitting, Mobilisation, Neutral, A book for the King, The men made gods, The Ghosts, The poet’s theme, Europe, After, The peace angel, Peace should not come. Miscellaneous; The Winds of Fate, Beauty, The invisible helpers, To the women of Australia, Replies, Earth bound, A successful man, Unsatisfied, Separation, To the teachers of the young, Beauty making, On Avon’s breast I saw a stately swan, The little go cart, I am running forth to meet you, Martyrs of peace, Home, The eternal now, If I were a man, a young man, We must send them out to play, Protest, Reward, This is my task, The statue, Behold the earth, What they saw, His last letter, A dialogue, A wish, Justice, An old song, Oh, poor, sick world, Praise day, Interlude, The land of the gone away souls, The harp’s song, The pendulum, An old fashioned type, The sword, Love and the seasons, A naughty little comet, The last dance, A vagabond mind, My flower room, My faith, Arrow and bow, If we should meet him, Faith, The secret of prayer, The answer, A vision, The second coming. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was a United States novelist and poet. Her most popular collection was Poems of Passion. Her most persistent poem was Solitude, which consists of the phrases “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone”. She published her autobiography, The Worlds and I, in 1918. She was a renowned poet other than a fictional poet, she articulated feelings of joy and positivism in simple writing with rhyming lines. Her insights of the world is stated in her poem Whatever Is—Is Best, signifying Alexander Pope’s “Whatever is, is right,” a belief properly enunciated by Gottfried Leibniz and satirized by Voltaire’s character Doctor Pangloss in Candide.
Product ID: 9781776723935
Sku: Y6-6VQV-RD12
