Transcribed from the 1919 Gay and Hancock edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org POEMS OF OPTIMISM BY BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD. 34 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN 34 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN LONDON 1919 All rights reserved p. ivN.B.—The only volumes of my Poems issued with my approval in the British Empire are published by Messrs. Gay & Hancock. p. iv ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Published 1913 Reprinted 1915, 1918, 1919 p. vCONTENTS p. v