Elizabeth Clendenning Ring

“ No one among the moderns who seeks, through the medium of verse, to interpret "the veiled heart of things," has more truly walked along "spacious paths" to find the mystic Gleam than Florence Earle Coates. ”

“ A path toward solution it offers, to the plodding questioner after Truth. In its balm for the sorrowing, its hope for the lonely, its aspiration for the dreamer, its promise for the faithful, its courage for the baffled, its music sings its way across the murky clouds of mockery and doubt that taint our sky.
indeed,
"The soul has need of prophet and redeemer:
Her outstretched wings against her prisoning bars,
She waits for truth; and truth is with the dreamer,—
Persisent as the myriad light of stars!"
↑ The Collected Poems of Florence Earle Coates. ”

“ But something quivered about the tightly-compressed lips of those marching men, something lurked about the corners of their drawn mouths, that gave one the impression they longed to give utterance to the stark, tormenting things that tore at their heart strings. ”

“ With rhythmic beat, each man marked time with monotonous precision, as he pushed steadily ahead, with set, grave face, and eyes that glowed with strange fires, while the pulsating chords of the Marseillaise came tumbling down the breeze and fairly fell upon him, listening, half-dazed, as he tramped, to its savage, delirious appeal. ”

“ Fruitless seems this boast in the light of the bewildering feats of courage performed by the modern kings of the air, so thrilling that Death himself seems to stand mocked and flaunted, as the pilots hurl, from their aerial ships, belching flames and fury that belittle the thunderbolts of the high gods. ”

“ And friendless follow in the lofty quest."
A Place of Inspiration
Camp Elsinore
Mrs. Coates was educated partly in New England, at the school of the worthy Theodore D. Wold, and later at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Paris, with a finishing course under some of the noted instructors then in vogue in Brussels.
Her tuition, while abroad, included in its scope, a study of music under the best masters, which explains the ardent interest the poet takes in the musical life of Philadelphia and New York. ”

“ Praised by London critics, largely copied at home and abroad, given a distinguished place in a year book of magazine verse, in its list of notable poems of the twelve months' issue, it marks an inspiring niche in the range of Mrs. Coates's poetic output:
"Others endure Man's rule ”