A Legend Of Cologne (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Above the bones St. Ursula owns,And those of the virgins she chaperons; Above the ...
Above the bones St. Ursula owns,And those of the virgins she chaperons; Above the ...
It was the morning season of the year; It was the morning era of the land;The watercourses rang full loud ...
(PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO, 1800)ILooking seaward, o'er the sand-hills stands the fortress, old and quaint,By the San Francisco friars lifted ...
June 4th! Do you know what that date means? June 4th! By this air and these pines!Well,--only you know how ...
Of all the fountains that poets sing,--Crystal, thermal, or mineral spring,Ponce de Leon's Fount of Youth,Wells with bottoms of doubtful ...
(SIERRAS, 1876)DRAMATIS PERSONAEFirst TouristSecond TouristYuba Bill, DriverA StrangerFIRST TOURISTLook how the upland plunges into cover, Green where the pines fade ...
(SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)Shrewdly you question, Senor, and I fancyYou are no novice. Confess that to littleOf my poor gossip of Mission ...
Dear Dolly! who does not recallThe thrilling page that pictured allThose charms that held our sense in thrall Just as ...
(OPENING OF THE CALIFORNIA THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY 19, 1870)Brief words, when actions wait, are well:The prompter's hand is on ...
When I bought you for a song,Years ago--Lord knows how long!--I was struck--I may be wrong-- By your features,And--a ...
Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands,And of armed men the hum;Lo! a nation's hosts have gatheredRound the quick alarming ...
Bells of the Past, whose long-forgotten musicStill fills the wide expanse,Tingeing the sober twilight of the PresentWith color and romance:I ...
(BY A COMMUNICANT OF "ST. JAMES'S")He wore, I think, a chasuble, the day when first we met;A stole and snowy ...
Not ours, where battle smoke upcurls,And battle dews lie wet,To meet the charge that treason hurlsBy sword and bayonet.Not ours ...
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