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theCoachingblog: "The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul." (Florence Earle Coates)
WorldsAspire: "ah, my mother, they're so occupied!" | CUPID AND THE MUSES | a poem by Florence Earle Coates published in 1912
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michellekafer: But here's a magic cometh new—
A joy to gladden thee, indeed:
This passionate out-flowering of
The jewel-weed,
- Florence Earle Coates
Jewelweed leaves turn silver in the water. Nature is both a playground & classroom. God is a fun Creator!
IEW: The month of April marks National Poetry Month. Today we wanted to highlight a poem by a lesser known poet, Florence Earle Coates.
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POETSorg: Sorrow, quit me for a while!
Wintry days are over;
Hope again, with April smile,
Violets sows and clover.
—Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: On this day in 1888, English poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold dies. Six years after he passed into "quiet realms Elysian," Florence Earle Coates dedicated her pen in tribute to her friend and mentor—
WorldsAspire: Florence Earle Coates was educated 'chiefly' at the school of abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld in New England. Weld was "one of the architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years"—
WorldsAspire: Florence Earle Coates in poem NATURE, first published as "As from Afar" in November 1904
WorldsAspire: SO WAR HAS BEGUN—a poem by Florence Earle Coates first published in 1904. Painting is "Grey Spring Day" (1903) by Polish modernist painter Jan Stanisławski. Visit Facebook for whole poem
potenspuella: Florence Earle Coates , "An Adieu"
WorldsAspire: Morning translation—
"For ills that have no cure
waiting for fortune
would be vain hope
which, in the waiting, would sow
wariness, misfortune..."
—Portuguese poet Bernardim Ribeiro in Obras Poéticas (1930)
"And for the things that were
there is no cure..." —Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: The future of poetry should be, must be, in the hearts of children, lifting them above mean desires and helping them to believe, with Socrates, that they who have the fewest wants are nearest to the gods. —Florence Earle Coates
My oldest in 1994 running with acorns in her hands.
WorldsAspire: Hope & memory are linked. A trilogy of Florence Earle Coates poems remind us that yesterday's tears usher in tomorrow's joys—that "from ashes bring the rose." It is because of past griefs that we develop courage, not in spite of them :) Read the poems here
WorldsAspire: A new poem. There is a version in Portuguese awaiting a grammar check. "the herb wisteth not who hath sent it" —Florence Earle Coates
The herb knows not where it came from,
But it knows well who takes care of it.
I know the hands, but not the art—
The touch that transforms it.
WorldsAspire: "If winter is the nursery of flowers,
If purity and loveliness have worth
Beyond this world of ours,
If there is pity for the tears we shed,
If any truly live—thou art not dead!"
—Florence Earle Coates
Poem below written 29 August 2020. Photo: Praia das Avencas, 18 July 2019.
WorldsAspire: Website facelift!
WorldsAspire: I woke and heard the thrushes sing at dawn...
...heedless of decay,
They sang of joy and dew-embalmed blooms.
My doubts grew still, doubts seemed so poor while they,
Sweet worshipers of light...
Poured forth transporting prophecies of Day.
—Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: Oops! Link error. You can find the complete works of poet Florence Earle Coates at
WorldsAspire: Florence Earle Coates in poem THE LORDLY PINES—first published in Mrs. Coates' collected work, Poems (1916) in 2 vols.
WorldsAspire: A coward is man, yet a hero...
He hazards the rock and the shoal;
One only thing halts his pretension,—
Love frightens the soul...
—Florence Earle Coates in poem L'AMOUR FAIT PEUR, first published 22 October 1908 in The Independent. Full poem at
WikiRandomWalk: Pro Patria (1917) is a pamphlet of poems written by Florence Earle Coates privately printed in support of American involvement during World War I.
WorldsAspire: Florence Earle Coates in poem MEMORIA, first published October 1890 in the Atlantic Monthly. Some time between 1898 and 1916, "thee" was changed to "you"
WorldsAspire: "We feel that we who long for thee may trust
To wake again, as children do from dreams,
And find thee waiting on the farther shore."
—Florence Earle Coates in poem LIFE, first published October 1893 in The Century Magazine
WorldsAspire: Sweet is the birth of love, and the awaking,
The bashful dream, the faltering desire,
The vision fair—of all fair things partaking—
The wonder, the communicable fire:
Sweet is the need to give and to obtain,—
And sweet love's pain!
—Florence Earle Coates in SONG
WorldsAspire: 4 (end)/ Previous quotation From Does Price Fixing Destroy Liberty? (1920) by George H. Earle, Jr.—brother of Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates.
WorldsAspire: John Luther Long—author of Madame Butterfly (1898)—once said of Florence Earle Coates that the last two lines of her poem THE BURIAL OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AT SAMOA "are enough to make her immortal."
LoveCarousel: An Adieu by Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: "Regret me not that I
Must like to music die!
The virgin rose,
In blossoming, hastes to its fragrant close,
And whatsoe'er this magic hour I seem,
I am enchantment, only, and a dream,—
Love always is a dream!"
Florence Earle Coates in CENDRILLON
WorldsAspire: MIGHT I RETURN—a poem by Florence Earle Coates first published July 1896 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to William Paine Lord (d. 1911), Florence Earle Coates (d. 1927), Willard Metcalf (d. 1925), Velma Caldwell Melville (d. 1924), William Grant Stairs (d. 1892), William Strunk Jr (d. 1946), Louis Bleriot (d. 1936) and William Duddell (d. 1917).
WorldsAspire: Florence Earle Coates first met Matthew Arnold at Andrew Carnegie's home in New York during Arnold's first visit and lecture tour of America (ca. 1883). Arnold encouraged and inspired Mrs. Coates' writing of poetry. He would become her mentor.
WorldsAspire: 2/ On 19 May 1892, Florence Earle Coates’ mother Frances (Fanny) dies at the age of 62. Upon her death, Fanny's husband George H. Earle, Sr.—lawyer & abolitionist—pens a poem, of which this is the last stanza.
Following Mr. Earle's death on 18 June 1907, Mrs. Coates pens...
WorldsAspire: The lyrics to my poem NOCTURNE were inspired by the poetry of Florence Earle Coates and Chopin's Nocturne op. 9 no. 2. I dedicated the poem to my daughter, who loved it so much that she memorized it and sang it and made my heart soar! At YouTube—
POETSorg: Sorrow, thou art Winter’s mate,
Spring cannot regret thee;
Yet, ah, yet—my friend of late—
I shall not forget thee!
—Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: Blooming at the pond today: Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
"Now by my banks are tender blossoms blowing:
In fragrant loveliness they smile on me,—
But I must hasten to the river, knowing
The river will lead onward to the sea."
From a poem by Florence Earle Coates.
LiteraryRob: Make way for me, O Life, for Death make room!
A poem by Florence Earle Coates inspired by the tragic Johnstown (PA) Flood, May 31, 1889 --
WorldsAspire: "... Ah, me! The wind wails by,
Like to a grief that would but cannot die.
How sore the heart can ache,
Yet beat and beat and beat, and never break! ..."
—Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: Alice N. Trask (born in 1873)—Florence Earle Coates' daughter—became deaf as a young mother. In a Volta Review article (Feb 1934), Alice relates how her mother was a source of encouragement. Alice would ultimately teach lip-reading, and founded the Trask School in Philadelphia.
WorldsAspire: "I gathered them—the lilies pure and pale...
And in a vase of crystal, placed them where
Their perfumes might unceasingly exhale...
I solaced with their sweetness my despair,
And fed with dews their beauteous petals frail..."
—Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: "A fragile thing, in that chill place
It grew where other joys were not,
Waxing a lovelier hope each day"
THE CHILD AND THE HEART BEREFT—a poem by Florence Earle Coates pub. in 1916. Painting is "Abandoned Doll" (pre-1910) by Spanish painter Emilio Sala
visualrecordbot: [123 years ago today] Handwritten copy of "Poetry" (later published as "To the Muse") by Philadelphia poet, Florence Earle Coates. Part of an inscription to Mrs. Charles F. Weber, dated...
anamolmani: Sorrow, quit me for a while!
Wintry days are over;
Hope again, with April smile,
Violets sows and clover.
•Florence Earle Coates
POETSorg: Sorrow, quit me for a while!
Wintry days are over;
Hope again, with April smile,
Violets sows and clover.
—Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: "Her cheek is like a tinted rose"
WorldsAspire: "And for the things that were there is no cure.
The vineyard with its fair investiture,
The mountain summit with its hoary rime...
Alike decay, and only dreams endure."
—from poem SURVIVAL by Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: Another photo retouch by me of Ellen Frances VAN LEER EARLE, mother of Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates. Original photo courtesy of Florence Earle Morrisey.
WorldsAspire: For on 19 September 1889, Florence Earle Coates writes the Century Magazine thanking them for sending George Kennan to Siberia, stating, "It was an enterprise which must, I believe, bear lasting fruit, and which shall not be forgotten."
POETSorg: Sorrow, thou art Winter’s mate,
Spring cannot regret thee;
Yet, ah, yet—my friend of late—
I shall not forget thee!
—Florence Earle Coates
Groucho_Bot: Dilecta Edition.
== Other reference material ==
=== Literature ===
1898 (in English) Poems written by Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) about the affair:"Dreyfus" – published in Poet Lore (September 1898) and subsequently in Mine and Thine (1904).
"Dreyfus"
LoveCarousel: Sorrow, quit me for a while!
Wintry days are over;
Hope again, with April smile,
Violets sows and clover.
- Florence Earle Coates
visualrecordbot: [97 years ago today] From Florence Earle Coates to Amos Niven Wilder (page 2 of 2).
shannonlabrie: “When walks the world with soul awake, Finds beauty everywhere; Though labor be his portion, though sorrow be his share, He looks beyond obscuring clouds, sure the light is there!” - Florence Earle Coates
WorldsAspire: Florence Earle Coates' DEATHLESS DEATH—
"still we grieve
Where we should lift the voice
In triumph, and rejoice
Amid our sorrow,
Because of what the past
Has given that is beauteous and shall last—
A heritage of blessing for the morrow."
WorldsAspire: "To-morrow!—mystic word of the Ideal!
What were all else, wert thou not there to heal
The deepest hurt that e'er the present gave?
Friend! Ever wise consoler! We are brave
Because of thee! Trusting thy might to save"
—Florence Earle Coates in BEYOND
WorldsAspire: 4 years ago today I made my 1st tweet. It was the 100th anniversary of Florence Earle Coates' POEMS. For 2 years I tweeted a poem-a-day (or more) by Mrs. Coates to shed light on her works. Then I moved to Portugal :) I'll take a fresh new look at the Coates Project this new year.
Groucho_Bot: Dilecta Edition.
== Other reference material ==
=== Literature ===
1898 (in English) Poems written by Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) about the affair:"Dreyfus" – published in Poet Lore (September 1898) and subsequently in Mine and Thine (1904).
"Dreyfus"
LucyLondon7: My latest post is about American WW1 poet Florence Earle Coates
ontheNthday: On the 2,137,762nd day, God created Florence Earle Coates.
NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to William Paine Lord (d. 1911), Florence Earle Coates (d. 1927), Willard Metcalf (d. 1925), Velma Caldwell Melville (d. 1924), William Grant Stairs (d. 1892), William Strunk Jr (d. 1946), Louis Bleriot (d. 1936) and William Duddell (d. 1917).
WorldsAspire: Florence Earle Coates and the word "hate." ... About 4% of her poems contain the word. It is surrounded by other words like «ancient, agony, treacherous, blind, venom, destroys, fatal, poisoned, avenging, indignant» ...Her antidote? Only love. To give it and to teach it... (more)
LiteraryRob: A moan of waters wild and strange,
A whelming horror near...
Florence Earle Coates's poem inspired by the tragic Johnstown Flood in Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889 --
WorldsAspire: On this day in 1967, English poet and writer John Masefield dies. On re-reading his Gallipoli and the Sonnets, Florence Earle Coates pens MASEFIELD, first published in The North American Review May 1922. In part—
wvlibrary: It's National Poetry Month! Here's today's poem by Florence Earle Coates:
"An Adieu"
WorldsAspire: "When the Peace Jubilee Committee turned to the Quaker City for a poet to celebrate the advent of peace the inevitable choice was [Florence Earle] Coates." —Harrison S. Morris
WorldsAspire: It appears Eugénio de Andrade was also a fan of Walt Whitman. In 1888 Florence Earle Coates sent a poem to Whitman; he responded, "The letter that came with it was very hospitable, forth-giving: I liked it: indeed, the letter was a better poem than the poem: a real poem in fact."
HoneyPie440: "An Adieu" by Florence Earle Coates
altheamarch: Mine and Thine | Florence Earle Coates | Poetry Audiobook
WorldsAspire: ESPERANÇA, MINHA ALEGRIA (HOPE, MY JOY) a poem I wrote on 2 July 2019. Thanks always to my teacher, Lurdes Saramago Chappell, for correcting my grammar :) Florence Earle Coates writes that Hope is "the gift of memories / Garnered at the mother's knees..."
WorldsAspire: Florence Earle Coates' father was a lawyer
LiteraryRob: Make way for me, O Life, for Death make room! Florence Earle Coates's poem on the Johnstown Flood in Pennsylvania, May 31, 1899 --
WorldsAspire: The lyre is often used to symbolize poetry. The constellation Lyra represents Orpheus' lyre in Greek mythology
WorldsAspire: Florence EARLE Coates' mother—Ellen Frances VAN LEER Earle—descended from a family long members of the Society of Friends.
4czgirl: An Adieu by Florence Earle Coates, 1850 - 1927
Sorrow, quit me for a while!
Wintry days are over; Hope again, with April smile,
Violets sows and clover. Pleasure follows in her path, Love itself flies after, And the brook a music hath Sweet as childhood’s laughter.
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Sorrow, quit me for a while!
Wintry days are over;
Hope again, with April smile,
Violets sows and clover.
Pleasure follows in her path,
Love itself flies...
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Effie_B_: Not a bird upon the bough
Can repress its rapture,
Not a bud that blossoms now
But doth beauty capture.
Sorrow, thou art Winter’s mate,
Spring cannot regret thee;
Yet, ah, yet—my friend of late—
I shall not forget thee!
Florence Earle Coates
1850-1927
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