Poems of Passion
# Poems of Passion

Poems of Passion is a collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox that was published in 1883.

Despite the fact that the book's title "threatened to spark a scandal," eventually it "was embraced by thousands of perfectly respectable midwestern readers."

## Contents

Poems of Passion contains the following poems:

* Love's Language
* Impatience
* Communism
* The Common Lot
* Individuality
* Friendship After Love
* Queries
* Upon the Sand
* Reunited
* What shall we do?
* "The beautiful blue Danube"
* Answered
* Through the valley
* But One
* Guilo
* The Duet
* Little Queen
* Wherefore?
* Delilah
* Love Song
* Time and Love
* Change
* Desolation
* Isaura
* The coquette
* New and old
* quite the same
* From the grave
* A Waltz-Quadrille
* Beppo
* Tired
* The speech of silence
* Conversion
* Love's coming
* Old and new
* Perfectness
* Attraction
* Gracia
* Ad finem
* Bleak Weather
* An answer
* You will forget me
* The farewell of Clarimonde
* The Trio

Miscellaneous poems:

* The Lost Garden
* Art and Heart
* Mockery
* As by fire
* If I should die
* Misalliance
* Response
* Drought
* The Creed
* Progress
* My friend
* Creation
* Red carnations
* Life is too short
* A sculptor
* Beyond
* The saddest hour
* Show me the way
* My heritage
* Resolve
* At Eleusis
* Courage
* Solitude
* The year outgrows the spring
* The beautiful land of nod
* The tiger
* Only a simple rhyme
* I will be worthy of it
* Sonnet
* Regret
* Let me lean hard
* Penalty
* Sunset
* The wheel of my breast
* A meeting
* Earnestness
* A picture
* Twin-born
* Floods
* A fable
