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POEMS OF CHEER 
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
CONTENTS 
Worth while
The House of Life
A Song of Life
Prayer
In the 
Long Run
As you go through Life
Two Sunsets
Unrest
Artist's 
life
Nothing but Stones
Inevitable
The Ocean of Song
"It might 
have been"
Momus, God of Laughter
I Dream
The Sonnet
The 
Past
A Dream
Uselessness
Will
Winter Rain
Life
Burdened
Let them go
Five Kisses
Retrospection
Helena
Nothing 
Remains
Comrades
What Gain?
To the West
The Land of 
Content
Warning
After the Battles are over
And they are dumb
Night
All for me
Into Space
Through Dim Eyes
The Punished
Half Fledged
The Year
The Unattained
In the crowd
Life and 
I
Guerdon
Snowed Under
"Leudemanns-on-the-river"
Little 
Blue Hood
No Spring
Midsummer
A Reminiscence
A Girl's 
Faith
Two
Slipping Away
Is it done?
A Leaf
Aesthetic
Poems of the Week
Ghosts
Fleeing away
All mad
Hidden Gems
By-and-bye
Over the May Hill
Foes
Friendship
Two sat 
down
Bound and free
Aquileia
Wishes for a little girl
Romney
My Home
To marry or not to marry?
An Afternoon
River and 
Sea
What happens?
Possession 
This Volume contains the poems published under the title "Poems of 
Life," with the exception of about half a dozen, which appear in my 
other volumes. I have also added a few new verses. 
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
April 12th, 1910. 
I step across the mystic border-land,
And look upon the 
wonder-world of Art.
How beautiful, how beautiful its hills!
And 
all its valleys, how surpassing fair!
The winding paths that lead up to the heights
Are polished by the 
footsteps of