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Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927)

See biography, quotes, indexes. Florence Earle Coates—Philadelphia-born Pennsylvania poet laureate who gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred[1] of which were published in literary magazines of her day such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, The Literary Digest, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetic works 1.1.1 Collections 1.1.2 Posthumous collections 1.1.3 Fugitive verse 1.2 Musical compositions 1.3 Articles 1.4 Letters 2 Works about Coates 2.1 Letters written to Florence Earle Coates 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetic works

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Some day, it is to be hoped, we may look for a book of lyrics from Mrs. Florence Earle Coates, whose store of music increases with each month's magazines. Where there is so much sweetness in single notes, there must needs be an unusual charm in a complete opus. [The Literary World, 26 March 1892; p. 109.]

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[edit] Collections

• Poems (1898)^[2] Dedicated to the memory of Matthew Arnold.
• Mine and Thine (1904)^[3] Dedicated to Edmund Clarence Stedman.
• Lyrics of Life (1909)^[4] Dedicated to S. Weir Mitchell.
• The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)^[5] Dedicated to Horace Howard Furness.
• Poems (1916) in 2 vols.^[6] "To him who found me sleeping, all my soul..."
• Pro Patria (1917) A 16-page pamphlet of seven war poems published privately in Philadelphia in support of American involvement in World War I.

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The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens. [Mrs. Coates on perpetual copyright (The Literary World, 28 Oct 1899).]

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[edit] Posthumous collections

• Victi Resurgunt (2009)^[7] A 26-page pamphlet of "fugitive" patriotic and war poems written by Mrs. Coates.

[edit] Fugitive verse

Poetry by Florence Earle Coates which appeared in various periodicals or literary collections, but were not part of any of her own collections.

• On Re-reading "The Sick King in Bokhara" (The Literary World, 26 June 1886)
• Frederick (The Magazine of Poetry, 1889)
• Winter the Nursery for Spring Flowers (Meehan's Monthly, January 1896)
• Dreyfus^[8] (The Independent, 16 February 1899) ("If thou art living, in that Devil's Isle")
• The Mourner (Lippincott's, May 1914)^[9]
• The Brave (Harper's Monthly, April 1915)
• The Gods Remember (Harper's Monthly, October 1916; The Literary Digest, 21 October 1916)
• In the Offing (The Minaret, May 1917)
• The Smile of Reims (The Bellman, 2 June 1917; The Literary Digest, 21 July 1917)
• The Kaiser (Fifes and Drums: A Collection of Poems of America at War, 1917)
• A Love-Song (The Bellman, 1 December 1917)
• Captain Guynemer (The Literary Digest, 27 April 1918; A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American poems of the World War: 1914-1919)
• Serbia (The Literary Digest, 8 June 1918; A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War: 1914-1919)
• A Soldier (The Bellman, 20 June 1918)
• For France (The Literary Digest, 22 June 1918; Patriotic Pieces from the Great War, 1918)
• Belgium (The Bellman, 21 September, 1918) ("I had a dream of Greatness ; and I saw—")
• The Infantry that Would Not Yield (The Bellman, 14 December 1918)
• Their Victory Won (Harper's Monthly, December 1918)
• As They Leave Us (Patriotic Pieces from the Great War, 1918)
• I Too Have Loved (The North American Review, January 1919)
• Our Land (Harper's Monthly, April 1919) ("The gift of an idealist,")
• In Memory of an American Soldier (The North American Review, June 1919)
• In Memory of Henry La Barre Jayne (Henry La Barre Jayne, 1857-1920: In Memoriam, 1920)
• Thanksgiving (Pieces for Every Day the Schools Celebrate, 1921) ("Thou that dost save through pain,")
• Masefield (The North American Review, May 1922)

[edit] Musical compositions

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  I Love, and the World is Mine (1891)
  I love, and the world is mine. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Clayton Johns. "To Miss Lena Little." Sop. or tenor in G. Song [with piano acc.]; score (5p.) 35 cm. New York, G. Schirmer. (1891)
• I love, and the world is mine. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Clayton Johns. "To Miss Lena Little." Medium in F. Song [with piano acc.]; score (4p.) 35 cm. New York, G. Schirmer. (1891)
• For me the jasmine buds unfold. Op. 19, no. 1. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. For sop. or tenor and piano. 1 score (7 p.). Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1892)
• Memoria; if only in my dreams. Op. 18, no. 2. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Frank Lynes. 1. In E Flat.—2. In G. (1892)
• The Ideal. Op. 18, no. 9. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Frank Lynes. Compass D to G and B Flat to E Flat. (1892)
• When Phyllis comes. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Clayton Johns. (1892)
• For me the jasmine buds unfold. Op. 19, no. 1. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. Caption title. 1 score (7 p.) ; 35 cm. Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1893)
• I love, and the world is mine. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Harriet Burdett Wills. (1895)
• When Phyllis comes. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Joshua Phippen. (1895)
• My true love's eyes. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Harriet Burdett Wills. Quartet or chorus, mixed voices. (1896)
• The ideal. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Harriet Burdett Wills. (1896)
• Three songs (1. If love were not 2. Might I return 3. Rhapsody). Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by John Hasler. (1899)
• Her cheek is like the tinted rose. Op. 185, no. 3. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Homer Newton Bartlett. John Church Co., Cincinnati. (1900)

• The Pilgrims. ("Written for the Pennsylvania Society of Mayflower Descendants") Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Thomas Whitney Surette. New York : Novello, Ewer & Co. (1900)
• A descant. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by William Wallace Gilchrist. (1901)
• Go not too far. Op. 56, no. 2. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. High and low voice. Words also printed as text. Caption title. 1 score (5 p.) ; 35 cm. Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1904)
• I know not how to find the spring. Op. 56, no. 3. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. For medium voice and piano. Caption title. Words also printed as text on p. 2. 1 score (5 p.) ; 36 cm. Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1904)
• If love were not. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Clayton Johns. 4 p. of music ; 35 cm. Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co. (1904)
• I love, and the world is mine! Op. 11, no. 3 (with Violin obbligato and piano). Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Charles Fonteyn Manney. 1 score (3 v.) + 1 part (1 v.) ; 34 cm. Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co. (1904)
• Give me not love. Op. 61. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. Duet for soprano and tenor. Caption title. 1 score (7 p.) ; 34 cm. Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1905)
• The world is mine. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Della V. Oliver. (1905)
• Her cheek is like a tinted rose. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Charles Gilbert Spross. (1906)
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    I Love, and the World is Mine (1906)
    I love and the world is mine. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Charles Gilbert Spross. For low voice and piano. "Dedicated to Cecilia Niles"—Caption. 1 score (5 p.) ; 33 cm. Cincinnati : John Church Co. (1906)
• Two songs. (1. In April) Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Charles Gilbert Spross. (1906)
• So is my love to me. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Clayton Johns. (1908)
• After. Op. 68. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. High and low voice. Words also printed as text. Caption title. 1 score (7 p.) ; 35 cm. Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1909)
• Tomorrow. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Charles Gilbert Spross. (1909)
• Tomorrow. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Arthur William Foote. Trio [for women's voices]. Caption title. Score (4 p.) 27 cm. Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1911)
• I love and the world is mine. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Frank Lynes. (1911)
• Through the rushes, by the river. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Arthur William Foote. Women's trio. Part song for women's voices [SSA and piano]. Caption title. 8 p. 28 cm. Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1913)
• After. Op. 34, no. 7a. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Henry Clough-Leighter. Three-part song for women's voices with pianoforte acc. (1914)
• Two songs. (2. Her cheek is like a tinted rose.) Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Horatio William Parker. For soprano or tenor and piano. 1 score (5 p.) ; 34 cm. Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt. (1914)
• A twilight lullaby. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Stanley F. Widener. Philadelphia : Theo Presser Co. (1916)
• When spring comes tripping. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by G. Cotton-Marshall. Trio or three-part chorus for women's voices. 4to. Philadelphia : Theo Presser Co. (1919)
• Rhapsody. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Douglas A Fletcher. [Photostat] 1 c. Newark, N. J.: Douglas A. Fletcher.
• Suppliant. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Marion Eugénie Bauer. Recitation, piano acc. Monologues with music (piano). 1 ms. score (3 p.) ; 34 cm. (date unknown)
• Two songs. Op. 27. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by Philip James. High voice with piano. 2 v. ; 35 cm. (date unknown)
• A love song. Words by Florence Earle Coates; music by William H. Neidlinger. Copyrighted on 26 Oct 1929 by Neidlinger's widow, Orra B. Neidlinger, East Orange, N.J. (original date unknown)

[edit] Articles

• "Matthew Arnold" (The Century Magazine, April 1894:931-37)^[10]
• "Verses by R. W. Gilder" [Appeared in the Saturday Review of Books and Art: From Readers section of The New York Times, 1 November 1902],^[11] "17 Oct 1902" (written)
• "The Strenuous Life to Blame" from "The Slump in Poetry: Views of Many Poets on the Subject Freely Expressed" (submissions by various authors/publishing companies) (The Critic, March 1905:267)
• "Matthew Arnold: A later estimate, from the point of view of one who knew him well" (Lippincott's Monthly, December 1909:670-74)
• "Tribute to James Whitcomb Riley" on his 66th birthday. (The Writer, October 1915:147-148.)

[edit] Letters

"My dear Mr. Jenkins:—" A letter to Mr. Owen B. Jenkins (5 June 1902).

[edit] Works about Coates

• "Florence Earle Coates" by Harrison S. Morris (Book News, December 1898)
• "A Camp in the Adirondacks: The summer home of Mrs. Florence Earle Coates, the Philadelphia poet" (Book News, Vol. XXIV No. 278: October 1905)
• "The Poetry of Florence Earle Coates" by Warwick James Price (The Pathfinder, Vol. V No. 6: June 1911)
• "A Foremost American Lyrist: An Appreciation" by William Stanley Braithwaite (Lippincott's Monthly, March 1913:296-304)^[12]
• "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry: Mrs. Coates finds modern poets nervously seeking novelties, and says in art there can be nothing new that is not ugly" (The New York Times, 10 December 1916)^[13]

[edit] Letters written to Florence Earle Coates

• "To Florence Earle Coates." Edmund Clarence Stedman responds to Mrs Coates' dedication of her 1904 collection of verse—Mine and Thine—to him. (29 December 1904)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The FLORENCE EARLE COATES Project A website dedicated to documenting the life and works of poet Florence Earle Coates.
• Biography of Mrs. Coates in the Fall 2009 edition of The Pennsylvania Mayflower Newsletter (pp. 6-7).
• Women's Poetry of the First World War (1988) book review :Florence Earle Coates on war.
• The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (SMDPA)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1927, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.