"Poems of Passion" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a collection of poems. Despite the fact that the book's title "threatened to spark a scandal," eventually it "was embraced by thousands of perfectly respectable midwestern readers." "The beautiful blue Danube", Answered, Through the valley, But One, Guilo, The Duet, Little Queen, Wherefore?, Delilah, Love Song, Courage, Solitude, The year outgrows the spring, The beautiful land of nod, The tiger, and Only a simple rhyme are just some of the poems in the volume.