Pathetic Heroines of Shakespeare, 16 November 1910, Image 1 of 5
Miss Ellen Terry
WOOLSEY HALL
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
1910
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
The Yale Dramatic Association
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Ellen Terry
ON HER RETURN TO AMERICA
How shall we welcome back her image bright
Who from our hearts has never been away?
They never lived who never loved to play,
Nor ever loved who loved not in delight;
Therefore to her who, in Dull-Care's despite,
Long since has taught the world's sad soul to pray
To saints of joy, we bring an homage gay
Of hearts made lighter by her own pure light.
Juliet of love, Miranda of the mind,
Katherine of quips, and beauty's Rosalind,
Truth's Portia, Beatrice the madcap-merry,
All heroines wrought of the master's heart-
To these we bow, and these bow down to Art,
And Art to Time, and Time- to Ellen Terry.
Percy MacKaye.
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[photo of Ellen Terry]
MISS ELLEN TERRY
SHAKESPEAREAN HEROINES
PATHETIC
To Ellen Terry
The Star that danced when you were born,
Beneficent and dear to us,
Has heard our welcome every morn
That ever brought you near to us.
Whether you came, the chosen Voice
Of oracles possessing you,
Or merely Woman, to rejoice
And warm our hearts with blessing you.
All hail! Whose golden gifts benign
Show Science dull and Logic merry,
When Graces Three and Muses Nine
Make One, - One only, - Ellen Terry.
Josephine Preston Peabody.
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Pathetic Heroines of Shakespeare, 16 November 1910, Image 4 of 5
From a book containing the signatures of a number of prominent Americans upon Miss Terry's arrival at New York.
The names in this book are interlined throughout with radiant memories and happy anticipations, tho' they will be visible to no one but yourself as they are in sympathetic ink of a peculiarly confidential tint. This little volume is a Book of Welcome from certain loyal admirers to that incarnation of poetic harmony we call Ellen Terry; the enchanting, the unapproachable, the imperishable Beloved of the English speaking stage. Since that star danced under which you were born, up to this present moment, dear Ellen Terry, each of us could have said, as Portia to Bassanio: "One half of me is yours, the other half yours... and so all yours."
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Did you know?
Ellen Terry published her autobiography, The Story of My Life (1908).
