Poetry Codex

American

Susan Coolidge

1835–1905

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905), born in Cleveland, Ohio, the eldest of a family of five children. She is remembered chiefly as the author of the Katy Did books for children, beginning with What Katy Did (1872), but she also wrote verse throughout her life, mostly short religious and domestic lyrics, elegies and occasional pieces.

This selection gathers the three volumes of her verse: Verses (1880), A Few More Verses (copyright 1889) and Last Verses, published posthumously in 1906 with a memoir by her sister. Poems are given in that order, and each poem records the book it came from.

Poems (247)

  1. To J. H. and E. W. H.
  2. Prelude
  3. Commissioned
  4. The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey
  5. “Of such as I have”
  6. A Portrait
  7. When?
  8. On the Shore
  9. Among the Lilies
  10. November
  11. Embalmed
  12. Ginevra Degli Amieri
  13. Easter Lilies
  14. Ebb-Tide
  15. Flood-Tide
  16. A Year
  17. Tokens
  18. Her Going
  19. A Lonely Moment
  20. Communion
  21. A Farewell
  22. Ebb and Flow
  23. Angelus
  24. The Morning Comes Before the Sun
  25. Laborare est Orare
  26. Eighteen
  27. Outward Bound
  28. From East to West
  29. Una
  30. Two Ways to Love
  31. After-Glow
  32. Hope and I
  33. Left Behind
  34. Savoir c’est Pardonner
  35. Morning
  36. A Blind Singer
  37. Mary
  38. When Love went
  39. Overshadowed
  40. Time to Go
  41. Gulf-Stream
  42. My White Chrysanthemum
  43. Till the Day Dawn
  44. My Birthday
  45. By the Cradle
  46. A Thunder Storm
  47. Through the Door
  48. Readjustment
  49. At the Gate
  50. A Home
  51. The Legend of Kintu
  52. Easter
  53. Bind-Weed
  54. April
  55. May
  56. Secrets
  57. How the Leaves Came Down
  58. Barcaroles
  59. My Rights
  60. Solstice
  61. In the Mist
  62. Within
  63. Menace
  64. “He That Believeth Shall Not Make Haste”
  65. My Little Ghost
  66. Christmas
  67. Benedicam Domino
  68. Giving to all, thou gavest as well to me
  69. A Benediction
  70. To Arcite at the Wars
  71. New every Morning
  72. Lohengrin
  73. A Single Stitch
  74. Reply
  75. Talitha Cumi
  76. The Better Way
  77. Forever
  78. Miracle
  79. Charlotte Brontë
  80. End and Means
  81. Comforted
  82. Words
  83. Influence
  84. An Easter Song
  85. So Long Ago
  86. A Birthday
  87. Derelict
  88. H. H.
  89. Freedom
  90. The Vision and the Summons
  91. Forecast
  92. Early Taken
  93. Some Lover’s Dear Thought
  94. Ashes
  95. One Lesser Joy
  96. Close at Hand
  97. Only a Dream
  98. At the Altar
  99. Eternity
  100. Restfulness
  101. In and On
  102. A Day-time Moon
  103. A Midnight Sun
  104. Her Voice
  105. A Florentine Juliet
  106. Here and There
  107. Forward
  108. In her Garden
  109. On Easter Day
  110. “Der Abend ist der Beste”
  111. Optimism
  112. “He shall drink of the Brook by the Way”
  113. Three Pictures
  114. The Two Shores
  115. “Arise, shine, for thy Light has come”
  116. A Withered Violet
  117. Darkened
  118. The Keys of Granada
  119. Bereaved
  120. “How can they bear it up in Heaven?”
  121. Wave after Wave
  122. The Word with Power
  123. To Felicia Singing
  124. Eurydice
  125. Three Worlds
  126. Opportunity
  127. Christ before Pilate
  128. Non Omnis Moriar
  129. At Dawn of Day
  130. What might have been
  131. Some Time
  132. The Stars are in the Sky all Day
  133. Now
  134. Just Beyond
  135. Contact
  136. An Easter Song
  137. Concord
  138. Hereafter
  139. Our Daily Bread
  140. Sleeping and Waking
  141. Thorns
  142. A New-England Lady
  143. Under the Snow
  144. Sonnet for a Birthday
  145. “Many Waters cannot quench Love”
  146. Unexhausted
  147. Welcome and Farewell
  148. Life
  149. Shut in
  150. Good-by
  151. What the Angel said
  152. Commonplace
  153. Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
  154. A Thought
  155. At Flood
  156. The Angels
  157. Not Yet
  158. To-day and To-morrow
  159. “That was the True Light, that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World”
  160. The Star
  161. Helen
  162. Lux in Tenebris
  163. Lent
  164. Palm Sunday
  165. Soul and Body
  166. Sound at Core
  167. The Old Village
  168. A Greeting
  169. Changeless
  170. Easter
  171. The World is Vast
  172. Helen Keller
  173. “A Cloud of Witnesses”
  174. Cor Cordium
  175. Martha
  176. Caen
  177. Temperaments
  178. The Holy Name
  179. “I Am the Way”
  180. Her Heart was like a Generous Fire
  181. The Legend of the Almost Saved
  182. Two Angels
  183. Limitation
  184. The Miracle of Friendship
  185. Rose Terry Cooke
  186. Into the Deep
  187. Through the Cloud
  188. Nearer Home
  189. Rooted
  190. The Buried Statue
  191. Far and Near
  192. Greece
  193. If Youth Could Know
  194. The Soul’s Climate
  195. The Better Prayer
  196. Supply
  197. A Thought
  198. Holger Danske
  199. Vassos
  200. Mutiny
  201. Unforgotten
  202. Denial
  203. Astoria by Twilight
  204. The Price of Freya
  205. A Summer Song
  206. An Evening Primrose
  207. A Rose in a Glass
  208. Snowbound
  209. Sheltered
  210. The Old Pine
  211. In the Forefront
  212. Interrupted
  213. Saint Christopher
  214. Conqueror
  215. The Year and the Century
  216. A. V. C.
  217. “The Land that is Very Far Off”
  218. The Heavenly Airs
  219. In the Fog
  220. The Porch of Life
  221. The Lighthouse
  222. Once and Forever
  223. Lights
  224. On the Lawn
  225. If Only
  226. Prelude
  227. Whom no Man Hath Hired
  228. On Easter Even
  229. Palm Sunday
  230. The Paschal Feast
  231. A New Year Prayer
  232. How Shall I Pray
  233. Good-night
  234. A Spring Parable
  235. “Thy Righteousness is like the Strong Mountains”
  236. Living or Dead
  237. A Morning Song
  238. The Stone of the Sepulchre
  239. Too Little and too Much
  240. The Messenger with the Bow-string
  241. Released
  242. A Paradise Song
  243. Little by Little
  244. Two Years
  245. Tempered
  246. Virginia
  247. Lift up Your Hearts

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