# The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)

THE UNCONQUERED
AIR
AND OTHER POEMS
by
FLORENCE EARLE COATES
boston and new york
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY FLORENCE EARLE COATES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published November 1912
TO
HORACE HOWARD FURNESS
With kind and cruel ministries Nature assays her metals fine, And Heaven, bestowing joys and griefs With equal hand benign, Attempers what it holds most dear— Adds now a smile and now a tear, Till it creates with touch divine A soul like thine, a soul like thine!— Ever to loftiest counsels moved, By all men honoured, and by all beloved.
CONTENTS
| the unconquered air | 3 |
| why did you go ? | 5 |
| ode to silence | 6 |
| the poetry of earth | 8 |
| how wonderful is love! | 9 |
| his face | 11 |
| lullaby | 13 |
| deathless death—in memory of richard watson gilder | 14 |
| the "unfinished" symphony | 17 |
| in the town a wild bird singing | 18 |
| robert browning | 20 |
| éastre | 22 |
| song—my love is fairer than the tassled corn | 24 |
| the tomb said to the rose—after the french of victor hugo | 25 |
| exaltation—after the french of victor hugo | 26 |
| cendrillon | 27 |
| ode on the coronation of king george v | 28 |
| better to die | 33 |
| yesterday | 34 ​ |
| cupid and the muses | 36 |
| last night i dreamed | 37 |
| love is passing | 38 |
| the hospital | 40 |
| once in a still, sequestered place | 43 |
| the orchestral leader | 44 |
| in loneliness—iseult of brittany | 45 |
| unpardoned | 47 |
| every night at marathon | 48 |
| mother mary | 50 |
| so you love me | 51 |
| the band of the "titanic" | 52 |
| winter-song | 54 |
| eros | 55 |
| dawn | 56 |
| the return of proserpine | 58 |
| a seeker in the night | 59 |
| through the window | 61 |
| poor icarus | 62 |
| secure | 63 |
| lines for a fiftieth anniversary | 65 |
| no more, dear heart | 66 |
| the man-soul | 67 |
| omar | 68 |
| the young wife speaks | 69 |
| heimweh | 70 ​ |
| for the birthday of william dean howells | 71 |
| love and the child | 72 |
| on finding buddha's dust | 73 |
| in a tenement | 74 |
| divination | 76 |
| in modern bonds | 77 |
| an idle ditty | 78 |
| father | 79 |
| in dreamland | 80 |
| to the author of "madame butterfly" | 82 |
| the love of life | 83 |
| a narrow window | 84 |
| the lost gioconda | 85 |
| to alice meynell | 86 |
| the summer-time is in the rose | 87 |
| they told me | 88 |
| to r. r. on rereading the "de profundis" of oscar wilde | 89 |
| fairer than violets are | 91 |
| eagles—gibert's battle for the air | 92 |
| base-born | 94 |
| the morning-glory | 95 |
| a lover's "litany to pan" | 96 |
| the "titanic"—aftermath | 98 |
| keats—a sonnet | 99 |
| the white-throated sparrow | 100 ​ |
| a cathedral | 101 |
| the chosen | 103 |
| the song that is forgot | 104 |
| against the gate of life—to helen keller | 105 |
| a realm of wonder | 106 |
| immortal | 109 |
| o giorno felice ! | 110 |
| dream the great dream | 112 |
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