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Florence Earle Coates

1850–1927

Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) was an American poet, born in Philadelphia and educated at private schools there and in Europe. She was a prominent member of the Philadelphia literary world and was known for her devotional and patriotic poems.

Her volumes include Poems (1898), Mine and Thine (1904), Lyrics of Life (1909) and The Unconquered Air (1912); a two-volume collected Poems appeared in 1916.

Poems (12)

  1. Song. "For me the jasmine buds unfold"
  2. The Unconquered Air
  3. Song. "If love were but a little thing --"
  4. By the Conemaugh
  5. Buffalo
  6. Survival
  7. India
  8. Tennyson
  9. Death
  10. The Angelus
  11. The House of Pain
  12. The Morning-Glory

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