The Passion of Life was a 19th-century American book of poetry by Jessie Wilson Manning. Published in 1887 by Robert Clarke & Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, the 75 page printed volume, written in Chariton, Iowa,[1] was dedicated to Manning's mother, Mrs. Adeline Hensham Wilson. The work was a poem in five parts: I. "The Glamour of Youth"; II. "Song of the Soul"; III. "Lost Love"; IV. "May glides Onward into June "; V. "The Doubter ".[2]