The coat without a seam, and other poems

by Helen Gray Cone

BY
HELEN GRAY CONE
Author of “A Chant of Love for England,
and Other Poems”

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue

Copyright 1919, by
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United States of America

Grateful acknowledgment is made, for permission to reprint some of the poems in this book, to Scribner’s Magazine, The Outlook, The Sonnet, The New York Evening Post, The New York Times, The Boston Evening Transcript, and The Association Monthly.

CONTENTS

	PAGE
The Coat Without a Seam	[1]
Sonnets of the Great Peace	[9]
Moods of War:
The Sword	[21]
Aligned	[23]
Earth-brown Armies	[26]
The Imperative	[27]
War-Sacrifice	[29]
The Youth and War	[31]
Mothers of Soldiers	[33]
A Reprisal	[35]
On the Death of an Untried Soldier	[39]
The Airman	[41]
To Francis Ledwidge	[42]
The Way of the White Souls	[44]
Respite	[47]
Happy Country	[49]
To France	[51]
To Belgium	[53]
The Creed of an American	[55]
The Ultimate Victory	[58]
Roosevelt, 1919	[60]
The Quiet Days:
Old Burying Hill	[65]
Heartbreak Road	[66]
Romance	[67]
Faith	[69]
Intimations	[70]
On the Singing of “Gaudeamus Igitur”	[72]
The Countersign	[74]
Failure Triumphant	[75]
The Spark	[77]
Foxgloves	[79]
The Christmas Bagpipes	[80]
When Roses Go Down to the Sea	[82]
Ritual for Summer Dead	[85]
Red October	[87]
The Singer Chooses the Songs of the Wind	[89]
The Gleam Travels	[91]
The Gray Victory	[93]
Flags and the Sky	[96]