Who is Helen Gray Cone

Helen Gray Cone (March 8, 1859 – January 31, 1934) was a poet and professor of English literature. She spent her entire career at Hunter College in New York City.

Early life and education

Cone was born in New York and attended the Normal College of the City of New York, later renamed Hunter College. She graduated in 1876 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and became an instructor in the Normal College English department. In the 1880s she served as president of the Associate Alumnae of the Normal College.

Career and writings

Her first book, Oberon and Puck: Verses Grave and Gay was published by Cassell, New York, in 1885. The New York Times received it well, saying, "Miss Cone has the rare talent of compression and the wit not to attempt t...
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Helen Gray Cone Poems

• The Dandelions
  Upon a showery night and still,
  Without a sound of warning,
  A trooper band surprised the hill,
  And held it in the morning....
• A Fairy Tale
  There stands by the wood-path shaded
  A meek little beggar maid;
  Close under her mantle faded
  She is hidden like one afraid....
• To-day
  Voice, with what emulous fire thou singest free hearts of old fashion,
  English scorners of Spain, sweeping the blue sea-way,
  Sing me the daring of life for life, the magnanimous passion
  Of man for man in the mean populous streets of To-day!...
• The Ride To The Lady
  “Now since mine even is come at last,-
  For I have been the sport of steel,
  And hot life ebbeth from me fast,
  And I in saddle roll and reel,-...

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Comments about Helen Gray Cone

• Farahrosesmith: i won the helen gray cone fellowship for graduate study in english. yay!
• Theatlarchives: joan of arc was burned at the stake 589 years ago this week. in an 1884 poem, helen gray cone recalled the french heroine's lost girlhood:
• Melaniejaxn: upon a showery night and still, without a sound of warning, a trooper band surprised the hill, and held it in the morning. they shook their trembling heads and gray with pride and noiseless laughter; when, well-a-day! they blew away, and ne'er were heard of after! helen gray cone
• David_fuj: allow me to introduce.. no, not the bloody play.. helen gray cone. color me a big fan.
• Theatlarchives: joan of arc was burned at the stake on charges of heresy 588 years ago today. helen gray cone recalled the teenage martyr's lost girlhood in a poem for the atlantic in 1884:

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