Custer and other poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox [electronic text]

CONTENTS.

• The World's Need 4 [sic8]
• High Noon 9
• Transformation 11
• Thought-Magnets 13
• Smiles 14
• The Undiscovered Country 16
• The Universal Route 17
• Earthly Pride 18
• Unanswered Prayers 19
• Thanksgiving 21
• A Maiden to Her Mirror 23
• The Kettle 24 24
• Contrasts 26
• Thy Ship 27
• The Tryst 29
• Life 32
• A Marine Etching 33
• The Duel 34
• "Love Thyself Last" 36
• Christmas Fancies 38
• The River 41

• Sorry 43
• The Old Wooden Cradle 45
• Ambition's Trail 47
• The Traveled Man 48
• Uncontrolled 50
• The Tulip Bed at Greeley Square 51
• Will 53
• To An Astrologer 54
• The Tendril's Faith 56
• The Times 57
• The Question 58
• Sorrow's Uses 59
• If 60
• Which Are You? 61
• The Creed To Be 63
• Music in the Flat 65
• Inspiration 68
• The Wish 69
• Three Friends 70
• You Never Can Tell 72
• Here and Now 73
• Unconquered 75
• All That Love Asks 76
• Does It Pay 78
• Sestina 79
• The Optimist 81
• The Pessimist 82
• The Hammock's Complaint 83

• Life's Harmonies 84
• Preaching vs. Practice 85
• An Old Man to His Sleeping Young Bride 86
• I Am 88
• Two Nights 90
• Preparation 92
• Custer 94