Poems of Power

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox - published in 1903

Table of contents

1. The Queen’s last ride
2. The Meeting of the Centuries
3. Death has Crowned him a Martyr
4. Grief
5. Illusion
6. Assertion
7. I Am
8. Wishing
9. We two
10. The Poet’s Theme
11. Song of the Spirit
12. Womanhood
13. Morning Prayer
14. The Voices of the People
15. The World grows Better
16. A Man’s Ideal
17. The Fire Brigade
18. The Tides
19. When the Regiment came back
20. Woman to Man
21. The Traveller
22. The Earth
23. Now
24. You and To-day
25. The Reason
26. Mission
27. Repetition
28. Begin the Day
29. Words
30. Fate and I
31. Attainment
32. A Plea to Peace
33. Presumption
34. High Noon
35. Thought-magnets
36. Smiles
37. The Undiscovered Country
38. The Universal Route
39. Unanswered Prayers
40. Thanksgiving
41. Contrasts
42. Thy Ship
43. Life
44. A Marine Etching
45. "Love Thyself Last"
46. Christmas Fancies
47. The River
48. Sorry
49. Ambition’s trail
50. Uncontrolled
51. Will
52. To an Astrologer
53. The Tendril's Fate
54. The Times
55. The Question
56. Sorrow’s Uses
57. If
58. Which are you?
59. The Creed to be
60. Inspiration
61. The Wish
62. Three Friends
63. You never can tell
64. Here and now
65. Unconquered
66. All that love asks
67. "Does it pay?"
68. Sestina
69. The Optimist
70. The Pessimist
71. An Inspiration
72. Life’s Harmonies
73. Preparation
74. Gethsemane
75. God’s Measure
76. Noblesse Oblige
77. Through Tears
78. What we Need
79. Plea to Science
80. Respite
81. Song
82. My Ships
83. Her Love
84. If
85. Love’s burial
86. "Love is enough"
87. Life is a Privilege
88. Insight
89. A Woman’s Answer
90. The World’s Need