Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume II

by Florence Earle Coates

POEMS

BY

FLORENCE EARLE COATES

COLLECTED EDITION

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME TWO

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

CONTENTS

To the Muse	3
Love, dost thou smile?	4
"Honor, not Honors"	5
The Singer	6
Song	9
Vita Nuova	10
Sappho	12
Mother	13
Longing	14
Benjamin Franklin	15
Leaders of Men	18
Persephone	19
Leave-taking	21
Conscience	23
Vestal	24
The House of Pain	25
A Secret	27
To Hope	28
A Descant	30
His Face	31
A Hero	33
A Narrow Window	34
Survival	35
The Pilgrim	36

Hylas	39
Adieu	44
The "Unfinished" Symphony	46
An Optimist	47
After the Paintings by George F. Watts	49
To Poverty	52
Helen Keller with a Rose	53
Henry V	54
Sleep	57
Heart-Room	58
To-day	59
In Loneliness	61
I know not how to find the Spring	64
The White-throated Sparrow	65
Robert Browning	66
James McNeill Whistler	68
Veiled	69
An Idler	71
There's a Spot in the Mountains	72
Easter	74
Mediæval	76
"Victi Resurgunt"	78
Achilles	79
Love and the Child	80
Two Brothers	81
They live so long	85
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	86
The Tomb said to the Rose	88
Exaltation	89

Picquart	90
Nocturne	91
In Memory of Caroline Furness Jayne	93
Affinity	94
In a College Settlement	95
Retrospect	97
Nansen	99
"The Sense of Tears in Mortal Things"	100
Mother-Love	101
A Farewell	102
To Henry Mills Alden	104
Beauty's Path	106
Eurydice	107
Unconquered	110
Honor	111
L'Amour fait Peur	112
Self-confident Youth	113
Unrest	115
An Idle Ditty	117
A Tomb in Tuscany	118
Earth's Mystery	120
On a Poet too early Dead	121
Lullaby	123
Where Harold sleeps	124
Last Night I dreamed	125
The Cherubim	126
Crippled	128
The Land of Promise	129
My Dream	130

Alms	132
Delilah	133
In Winter-Time	135
At the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre	136
Cradle Song	137
Socrates	138
Love that Faltered	139
The All-Mother	140
Renewal	141
Unpardoned	143
Didst thou rejoice?	144
Adonis	145
A Rose	148
Demeter	149
"I longed for Love"	151
The Band of the Titanic	152
Winter-Song	154
The Mirror	155
Dawn	156
Poor Icarus	158
Secure	159
In Dreamland	161
Love Reproachful	163
They told me	164
Beside a Pleasant Shore	165
The Hospital	166
So you love me	170
Art	171
Song	173

Le Grand Salut	174
Might I return	175
The Man-Soul	176
Yesterday	177
Privilege	179
No More, Dear Heart	180
Who walks the World with Soul Awake	181
Youth and Age	182
In the Wood	183
Wings	184
Lament of Brünhilde	185
Love has no Foes	188
Suppliant	189
Keats	190
Wouldst thou learn	191
Compensation	192
Father	193
Autumn	194
The Child and the Heart Bereft	195
Tennyson	196
The Summer-Time is in the Rose	197
Henry James	198
Romance	199
War	201
Britannia	202
Place de la Concorde	204
The New Mars	207
In War-Time	209
In War-Time	210

Rheims	211
A Russian's Prayer for his Horse, before going ⁠into Battle	212
An Appeal	213
Art and War	215
Requiem for a Young Soldier	216
He and I	217
A Round	218
Nothing that can die	219
An Adieu	220
Cupid and the Muses	221
Beyond	222
A Lover's "Litany to Pan"	224
The Frogs	226
After the Play	227
Love conquers Death	233
Though thou hast climbed	234
Mother Mary	235
Kenilworth	237
Thanksgiving	238
To-morrow	240
Every Night at Marathon	241
The Morning Glory	243
Homeward	244
April	245
You	246
Pilgrimage	247
Stanza	248
Amor Creator	249

Death	250
Jean-François Millet	251
To the Victor	252
India	253
Immortal	254
Song	255
Dream the Great Dream	256
After	257
⁠Index of Titles	261
⁠Index of First Lines	269