A Farewell (Coates)

by Florence Earle Coates

For works with similar titles, see Farewell.

Versions of A Farewell include:

• Coates, Florence Earle (1909), "A Farewell" in Lyrics of Life (1909).
• Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "A Farewell" in Poems II.

Notes

⁠⁠"Knowing when lesser gods depart,
⁠The gods themselves arrive!"

Compare—

"Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Give All To Love")