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AFFINITY by Florence Earle Coates

ALL are not strangers whom we so misname:
Man's free-born spirit, which no rule can tame,
Careless of time, o'er vasty distance led,
Still finds its own where alien altars flame,
Still greets its own amongst the deathless dead!

Purpose

Poet, why wilt thou wander far afield?
Turn again home! There, also, Nature sings...

—from "The Mirror"

y primary focus is to "bring back to life" the works of Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927). [Also check out works by her brother!] I am a Wiki-Kindergartener who likes to copy, cut, and paste; I am allowed to wander onto the Wikisource playground even though I should probably stick to playing in the sandbox! Please keep me informed of any transcription/factual errors that I might make, and I will try not to whine or ask "Why?" too often! Thank you, and enjoy!

By Florence Earle Coates

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POEMS. (1898)
MINE AND THINE. (1904)
LYRICS OF LIFE. (1909)
THE UNCONQUERED AIR AND OTHER
POEMS. (1912)
POEMS. 2 vols. (1916)
PRO PATRIA. (1917) Privately published.
Fugitive verse.
On Matthew Arnold. (1894, 1909)

Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
Magazines
Music

 

THEY LIVE INDEED—
THE DEAD BY WHOSE
EXAMPLE WE ARE UPWARD
LEDF.E.C.

Activity

Creations and contributions
Housekeeping

[Gauvain:] "...Putting everything in equilibrium is good; making everything harmonious is better. Above the scales is the lyre. Your republic doses, measures, and rules man; mine carries him up into the clear sky; that is the difference between a theorem and an eagle."

[Cimourdain:] "You will be lost in the clouds."

[Gauvain:] "And you in mathematics."

 

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from TO ONE WHO COMES NOW AND THEN

When you come in, it seems a brighter fire
Crackles upon the hearth invitingly,
The household routine which was wont to tire
Grows full of novelty.

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And sometimes from my shelf of poems you take
And secret meanings to our hearts disclose,
As when the winds of June the mid bush shake
We see the hidden rose.

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Come often, friend, with welcome and surprise
We'll greet you from the sea or from the town;
Come when you like and from whatever skies
Above you smile or frown.

Francis Ledwidge.

 

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"If with new strength there come not larger kindness***
If we no longer see, for selfish blindness,
Beyond our realms, the world,—
Then poor, indeed, though vast our rule supernal***
Missing the glory of the hope eternal—
The godlike, human dream!"

—Florence Earle Coates
in "To England"

SOCIETY PICTURES.

By George Du Maurier, author of "Trilby" and "Peter Ibbetson." Oblong 12mo, paper, 50 cents; oblong 12mo, shot-silk cloth, $1.00. CHARLES H. SERGEL COMPANY, 358 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. No 11 Sergel's International Library, March 1895. (unpaginated)

One hundred and sixty of Du Maurier's London society pictures, accompanied with a few words of witty dialogue.

 

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