Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume I

by Florence Earle Coates

POEMS

BY

FLORENCE EARLE COATES

COLLECTED EDITION

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME ONE

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

1916

COPYRIGHT, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1912, AND 1916,
BY FLORENCE EARLE COATES

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published December 1916

To him who found me sleeping, all my soul
Locked in the dark enchantment of a dream
Of suffering and death: who broke the spell,
And led my faltering steps through twilight paths
Unto the fair, forgotten fields of life,—
To him I dedicate, with timid trust,
Whate'er of worthiest in thought or phrase
May mirror here the visions lent me since.

Florence Earle Coates.

CONTENTS

The Poetry of Earth	vii
Through the Rushes	3
Life	5
Interchange	6
Probation	8
The Ideal	9
Perdita	10
Poetry	12
Man	13
Ode to Silence	15
In Darkness	17
How Wonderful is Love	18
Israfel	20
Before the Hour	22
Madonna	23
Song of Life	24
The Unconquered Air	25
In the Town a Wild Bird singing	27
Morning	30
"Poor Love!" said Life	31
New York	32
Brook-Song: To the Spring	35
The "Penseur"	37
Time	39
Let me believe	41

Cora	42
Why did you go ?	44
Indian-Pipe	45
Deathless Death	47
In April	50
Limitation	51
Earth's Blossoms	52
Psyche	53
At Break of Day	55
The Lark	56
Give me not Love	58
Siberia	59
Alexander III	60
Cruel Love—Anacreontic	62
The Chosen	64
To a Poet	66
A Seeker in the Night	67
Betrothal	69
When Christ was born	71
Reveille	73
Of Future Days	74
Dryad Song	75
Before the Dawn	78
A Little Minister	80
A Realm of Wonder	81
To One in Hospital Pent	84
A Ballad of a Drum	85
Cendrillon	87
Nature	88

The Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson at Samoa	89
Breathless we strive	90
The Return	91
Music	93
Base-Born	94
Transition	95
Every Heart	96
Columbus	97
Pilgrim Song	98
An American at Lincoln	100
War	102
"So War has begun"	104
Memory	106
Autumn	107
Joan of Arc	108
Rouen: In the Prison of Joan of Arc	109
"Blessèd"	110
Once in a Still, Sequestered Place	112
Friends to Virtue	113
Beethoven	115
O Giorno Felice!	116
"In Memory of Jean"	118
Immortal	120
Christmas Eve	121
"Ask what you will"	123
Old St. David's	124
America	127
To the Returning Brave	129
Memorial Ode	131

Buffalo	138
Natura Benigna	139
Love is passing	140
To England	142
On the Death of Lady Curzon	145
Bereft	146
To Britannia	148
To William Butler Yeats	150
The Irish Shamrock in South Africa	151
Ditty: My True Love's Eyes	153
Ab Humo	154
The Christ of the Andes	155
Echo Consolatrix	156
Mars	157
Du Maurier	159
Near and Far	160
Be Thou my Guide	162
Love sailed at Morn	163
The Little Lass	164
Love never is Too Late	166
Eagles	167
Edmund Clarence Stedman	169
"Go not Too Far"	170
Daï Nippon	171
Too Late	174
The Clouds	175
The Return of Proserpine	176
I Heard a Voice	177
For Joy	179

To Helen Keller	180
In Winter	181
Eros	182
In a Tenement	183
Song	185
Divination	186
A Meeting in the Forest	187
Beatrice before Death	188
Dearth	189
The Hermit	190
True Love	191
Per Aspera	192
Song	193
Kindred	194
Mid-Ocean	196
Shakespeare	197
The Violin	198
Man, that will not be beguiled	200
A Cathedral	201
A Little Song	203
To Sappho Dead	204
The Nest	206
Through the Window	207
Life	208
A Maid's Defence	209
At Dusk	210
Song	212
Jewel-Weed	213
Saint Theresa	215

The Heart of Love	217
Better to die	218
Éastre	219
She will not hear	222
The Song that is forgot	223
Greatness	224
The Lordly Pines	225
The Empty House	226
Influence	227
Reproach not Death	228
Water Lilies	229
Daphnis	230
Live thy Life	234
October	235
The Poet	236
Song	237
Motherless	238
Civilization	239
Courage	241
Memoria	242
Rejected	243
Rhapsody	244
Combatants	245
Victory	247
Song	248
Inviolable	249