# Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume II

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
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 |

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