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Poems of Purpose

Name: Poems of Purpose
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Read by Ken Masters, Ian King, Rosslyn Carlyle, Carol, MaryAnn, Julia Niedermaier, Shakira Searle, Soumen Barua and Rani K. · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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A Good Sport (3:51)
A Son Speaks (6:05)
The Younger Born (4:48)
Happiness (4:10)
Seeking for Happiness (2:05)
The Island of Endless Play (2:24)
The River of Sleep (2:04)
The Things that Count (2:07)
Limitless (0:51)
What They Saw (4:08)
The Convention (3:26)
Protest (1:47)
A Bachelor to a Married Flirt (4:15)
The Superwoman (3:19)
Certitude (1:20)
Compassion (1:25)
Love (1:28)
Three Souls (3:40)
When Love is Lost (2:03)
Occupation (2:59)
The Valley of Fear (2:56)
What would it be? (1:41)
America (2:24)
War Mothers (5:12)
A Holiday (1:40)
The Undertone (2:51)
Gypsying (1:48)
Song of the Road (2:08)
The Faith we Need (2:41)
The Price he Paid (2:59)
Divorced (5:08)
The Revealing Angels (4:16)
The Well-born (2:39)
Sisters of Mine (1:11)
Answer (1:20)
The Graduates (3:01)
The Silent Tragedy (4:06)
The Trinity (2:29)
The Unwed Mother to the Wife (3:20)
Father and Son (3:18)
Husks (2:12)
Meditations (4:53)
The Traveller (2:12)
What Have You Done? (3:00)