Miss Blanche Says (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
And you are the poet, and so you want Something--what is it?--a theme, a fancy?Something or other the Muse won't ...
Francis Bret Harte Poems on War & Peace (20 Poems)
John Burns Of Gettysburg (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Have you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of Gettysburg?-No? Ah, well, Brief is the glory that hero ...
Poem Delivered On The Fourteenth Anniversary Of California’s Admission Into The Union, September 9, (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
We meet in peace, though from our native EastThe sun that sparkles on our birthday feastGlanced as he rose on ...
Ramon (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(REFUGIO MINE, NORTHERN MEXICO) Drunk and senseless in his place, Prone and sprawling on his face,More like brute ...
Jack Of The Tules (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)Shrewdly you question, Senor, and I fancyYou are no novice. Confess that to littleOf my poor gossip of Mission ...
Grandmother Tenterden (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(MASSACHUSETTS SHORE, 1800) I mind it was but yesterday:The sun was dim, the air was chill;Below the town, below the ...
The Station-Master Of Lone Prairie (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
An empty bench, a sky of grayest etching,A bare, bleak shed in blackest silhouette,Twelve years of platform, and before them ...
The Idyl Of Battle Hollow (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(WAR OF THE REBELLION, 1884)No, I won't,--thar, now, so! And it ain't nothin',--no!And thar's nary to tell that you folks ...
Further Language From Truthful James (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(NYE'S FORD, STANISLAUS, 1870)Do I sleep? do I dream?Do I wonder and doubt?Are things what they seem?Or is visions about?Is ...
Truthful James To The Editor (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(YREKA, 1873)Which it is not my style To produce needless painBy statements that rile Or that go 'gin the grain,But ...
The Society Upon The Stanislaus (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;I am not up to small deceit or any sinful ...
Crotalus [Rattlesnake (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
No life in earth, or air, or sky; The sunbeams, broken silently, On the bared rocks around me lie,— Cold ...
The Goddess Contributed To The Fair For The Ladies Patriotic Fund Of The Pacific (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Who comes? The sentry's warning cryRings sharply on the evening air:Who comes? The challenge: no reply,Yet something motions there.A woman, ...
San Francisco [ From The Sea] (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
SERENE, indifferent of Fate,Thou sittest at the Western Gate;Upon thy height, so lately won,Still slant the banners of the sun;Thou ...
A Sanitary Message (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain,--A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane:The ...
The Aged Stranger (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR"I was with Grant"--the stranger said; Said the farmer, "Say no more,But rest thee here at ...
California’s Greeting To Seward (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
We know him well: no need of praise Or bonfire from the windy hillTo light to softer paths and ways ...
The Copperhead (1864) (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
There is peace in the swamp where the Copperhead sleeps,Where the waters are stagnant, the white vapor creeps,Where the musk ...
The Reveille (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands,And of armed men the hum;Lo! a nation's hosts have gatheredRound the quick alarming ...
How Are You Sanitary? (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Down the picket-guarded lane Rolled the comfort-laden wain, Cheered by shouts that shook the plain, Soldier-like and merry: ...