# Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume I

POEMS
BY
FLORENCE EARLE COATES
COLLECTED EDITION
IN TWO VOLUMES
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 |
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