The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)

by Florence Earle Coates

 

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