Mystery Of Carmel (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
The Mission floor was with weeds o'ergrown,And crumbling and shaky its walls of stone;Its roof of tiles, in tiers and ...
The Mission floor was with weeds o'ergrown,And crumbling and shaky its walls of stone;Its roof of tiles, in tiers and ...
"Farewell?" No, not farewell, I'll worship ever Thy form divine.No death's despair, no voice of doom shall sever My heart from thine.Thou'st ...
YORKTOWN.FROM Yorktown's ruins, ranked and still,Two lines stretch far o'er vale and hill:Who curbs his steed at head of one?Hark! ...
LIGHT Up thy homes, Columbia,For those chivalric menWho bear to scenes of warlike strifeThy conquering arms again,Where glorious victories, flash ...
Under the walls of MontereyAt daybreak the bugles began to play, Victor Galbraith!In the mist of the morning damp and gray,These ...
I have dreamed of San Francisco all the way-Francis d' Assisi! Seeking Monterey,That hides itself among these strangenesses-Leading now here, ...
Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,The exuberant voices of music,Have charm for children but lack ...
(PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO, 1800)ILooking seaward, o'er the sand-hills stands the fortress, old and quaint,By the San Francisco friars lifted ...
READ BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF MEXICAN WAR VETERANS, JANUARY 16, 1874. "WHEN CALIFORNIA WAS A FOREIGN LAND!" How many ...
Of all the fountains that poets sing,--Crystal, thermal, or mineral spring,Ponce de Leon's Fount of Youth,Wells with bottoms of doubtful ...
We were not many-we who stood Before the iron sleet that day; Yet many a gallant spirit would Give ...
O BELLS that rang, O bells that sang Above the martyrs' wilderness, Till from that reddened coast-line sprang The Gospel ...
Down on the Plaza they are dancing,Tapping pointed heels, clicking castanets,Oh, Don Carlos, they are dancingIn the darkness deeper than ...
Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight They could not tell where ...
1 Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed, Little Louis Sanchez, will be given you ...
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