[Picture: Book cover] POEMS OF EXPERIENCE BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX [Picture: Decorative graphic] GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD. 12 AND 13 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN LONDON 1917 [_All rights reserved_] * * * * * _Published_ 1910 _Reprinted_ 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917 * * * * * ANY edition of my poems published in England by any firm except Messrs. Gay and Hancock is pirated and not authentic. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. _April_ 12, 1910. CONTENTS PAGE The Empty Bowl 1 Keep Going 2 A Prayer 4 The London ‘Bobby’ 5 Read at the Benefit of Clara Morris 7 Two Ghosts 10 Woman 13 Battle Hymn of the Women 17 Memories 19 See? 21 The Purpose 23 The White Man 24 A Moorish Maid 26 Lincoln 28 I know not 29 Interlude 30 Resurrection 31 The Voices of the City 32 If Christ came Questioning 36 England, Awake! 38 Be not attached 39 An Episode 41 The Voice of the Voiceless 43 Time’s Defeat 47 The Hymn of the Republic 49 The Radiant Christ 53 At Bay 56 The Birth of Jealousy 58 Summer’s Farewell 61 The Goal 63 Christ Crucified 65 The Trip to Mars 69 Fiction and Fact 71 Progress 72 How the White Rose Came 73 I look to Science 75 Appreciation 77 The Awakening 78 Most blest is he 80 Nirvana 82 Life 84 Two men 86 Only be still 88 Pardoned Out 89