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American

Helen Gray Cone

1859–1934

Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) was an American poet and teacher, born in New York City. She graduated from the Normal College in 1876 and from 1899 was professor of English literature at Hunter College.

Her volumes of verse include Oberon and Puck (1885), The Ride to the Lady (1893) and Soldiers of the Light (1911).

Poems (176)

  1. The Ride to the Lady
  2. To-Day
  3. Oberon
  4. The Accolade
  5. The Olive Bough
  6. Flower Fancies: I. A Yellow Pansy
  7. Flower Fancies: II. A House Divided
  8. Flower Fancies: III. A Song of Failure
  9. Flower Fancies: IV. The Dandelions
  10. Flower Fancies: V. A Fairy Tale
  11. Lepage’s Joan of Arc
  12. The Merchant of Venice
  13. A Nocturne of Rubinstein
  14. An Epitaph on a Butterfly Drowned in the Sea
  15. Emelie
  16. Elsinore
  17. Fiammetta
  18. Haroun Al Raschid
  19. A Rondel of Parting
  20. A Christmas Greeting
  21. At Easter-Tide
  22. A Conservative
  23. A Radical
  24. A Retrograde
  25. The Resolve
  26. The Nooning
  27. The Inheritance
  28. Long Summer Days
  29. The Goldenrod
  30. Hey Robin, Jolly Robin!
  31. The Undersong
  32. The Passing of the Year
  33. A Charmed Cup
  34. In Hush of Night
  35. The Wayfarers
  36. An Invocation in a Library
  37. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  38. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  39. On Landor’s Hellenics
  40. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion Music
  41. Salvini’s Othello
  42. Ellen Terry’s Beatrice
  43. “Songs of a Semite”
  44. On Reading the Poems of Edith Thomas
  45. Posies: I. Friendship
  46. Posies: II. A Rose
  47. Posies: III. Wistaria
  48. Posies: IV. On a Fly-Leaf
  49. An Ivory Miniature
  50. To My Goldfish
  51. “As the Crow Flies”
  52. Sprigs o’ Heather: I. To Comin’ Years
  53. Sprigs o’ Heather: II. Wonderfu’ Slee
  54. Sprigs o’ Heather: III. My Ain, Ain Lass
  55. Evening Primroses
  56. A Humming-Bird
  57. Child Songs: I. Wool Gathering
  58. Child Songs: II. The Land Without a Name
  59. Child Songs: III. A Lullaby
  60. Puck
  61. The Song of Sir Palamede
  62. A Merry Jest of a Modern Maid
  63. The Rhyme of the Hercules Club
  64. The Ballad of Cassandra Brown
  65. The Tender Heart
  66. The First Guest
  67. Silence
  68. Arraignment
  69. The Going Out of the Tide
  70. King Raedwald
  71. Ivo of Chartres
  72. Madonna Pia
  73. Two Moods of Failure
  74. The Story of the "Orient"
  75. A Resurrection
  76. The Glorious Company
  77. The Trumpeter
  78. Comrades
  79. The House of Hate
  80. The Arrowmaker
  81. A Nest in a Lyre
  82. Thisbe
  83. The Spring Beauties
  84. Kinship
  85. Compensation
  86. When Willows Green
  87. At the Parting of the Ways
  88. The Fair Gray Lady
  89. The Encounter
  90. Summer Hours
  91. Love Unsung
  92. The Wish for a Chaplet
  93. The Torch Race
  94. To Sleep
  95. Sister Snow
  96. Retrospect
  97. The Contrast
  98. A Mystery
  99. Triumph
  100. In Winter, with the Book we had in Spring
  101. Sere Wisdom
  102. Isolation
  103. The Lost Dryad
  104. A Memory
  105. The Gifts of the Oak
  106. The Strayed Singer
  107. The Immortal Word
  108. The Soldiers of the Light
  109. The Third Day at Gettysburg
  110. Abraham Lincoln: February 12, 1909
  111. Greencastle Jenny: A Ballad of ’Sixty-Three
  112. By the Blockhouse on the Hill: A Ballad of ’Ninety-Eight
  113. The Admiral’s Story
  114. Death After War
  115. The Riddle of Wreck
  116. The Common Street
  117. Calnan’s Christmas
  118. Guion
  119. Poverty Row
  120. The Inn of the Star
  121. Marina Sings
  122. The King’s Diamond
  123. Death-Tryst
  124. The Iris-Bridge
  125. Desire of Fame
  126. Rose-Rent
  127. The Frigate-Ghost
  128. Fair England
  129. To the Memory of Richard Watson Gilder
  130. A Chant of Love for England
  131. The Gaoler
  132. A Rhyme of Robin Puck
  133. The Portrait of the Princess
  134. The Coat Without a Seam
  135. Sonnets of the Great Peace: I.
  136. Sonnets of the Great Peace: II.
  137. Sonnets of the Great Peace: III.
  138. Sonnets of the Great Peace: IV.
  139. Sonnets of the Great Peace: V.
  140. The Sword
  141. Aligned
  142. Earth-Brown Armies
  143. The Imperative
  144. War-Sacrifice
  145. The Youth and War
  146. Mothers of Soldiers
  147. A Reprisal
  148. On the Death of an Untried Soldier
  149. The Airman
  150. To Francis Ledwidge
  151. The Way of the White Souls
  152. Respite
  153. Happy Country
  154. To France
  155. To Belgium
  156. The Creed of an American
  157. The Ultimate Victory
  158. Roosevelt, 1919
  159. Old Burying Hill
  160. Heartbreak Road
  161. Romance
  162. Faith
  163. Intimations
  164. On the Singing of “Gaudeamus Igitur”
  165. The Countersign
  166. Failure Triumphant
  167. The Spark
  168. Foxgloves
  169. The Christmas Bagpipes
  170. When Roses Go Down to the Sea
  171. Ritual for Summer Dead
  172. Red October
  173. The Singer Chooses the Songs of the Wind
  174. The Gleam Travels
  175. The Gray Victory
  176. Flags and the Sky

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