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 ...
We know him well: no need of praise Or bonfire from the windy hillTo light to softer paths and ways ...
I have found out a gift for my fair; I know where the fossils abound,Where the footprints of Aves declare ...
There is peace in the swamp where the Copperhead sleeps,Where the waters are stagnant, the white vapor creeps,Where the musk ...
(ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING)Oh, come, my beloved, from thy winter abode,From thy home on the Yuba, thy ranch overflowed;For ...
Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands,And of armed men the hum;Lo! a nation's hosts have gatheredRound the quick alarming ...
(AFTER SPENSER)Lo! where the castle of bold Pfeiffer throwsIts sullen shadow on the rolling tide,--No more the home where joy ...
Beg your pardon, old fellow! I thinkI was dreaming just now when you spoke.The fact is, the musical clinkOf the ...
Bells of the Past, whose long-forgotten musicStill fills the wide expanse,Tingeing the sober twilight of the PresentWith color and romance:I ...
(MOUTH OF THE SHAFT)What I want is my husband, sir,-- And if you're a man, sir,You'll give me an answer,-- ...
If Mr. Jones, Lycurgus B.,Had one peculiar quality,'Twas his severe advocacyOf conjugal fidelity.His views of heaven were very free;His views ...
Didn't know Flynn,--Flynn of Virginia,--Long as he's been 'yar?Look 'ee here, stranger,Whar HEV you been?Here in this tunnel He was ...
Down the picket-guarded lane Rolled the comfort-laden wain, Cheered by shouts that shook the plain, Soldier-like and merry: ...
(SIMPSON'S BAR, 1858)So you've kem 'yer agen, And one answer won't do?Well, of all the derned men That I've struck, ...
High on the Thracian hills, half hid in the billows of clover,Thyme, and the asphodel blooms, and lulled by Pactolian ...
Coward of heroic size, In whose lazy muscles lies Strength we fear and yet despise; Savage,—whose relentless tusks Are content ...
By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting,By furrowed glade and dell,To feverish men thy calm, sweet face uplifting,Thou stayest them ...
Over the chimney the night-wind sangAnd chanted a melody no one knew;And the Woman stopped, as her babe she tossed,And ...
(BY A COMMUNICANT OF "ST. JAMES'S")He wore, I think, a chasuble, the day when first we met;A stole and snowy ...
Captain of the Western wood, Thou that apest Robin Hood ! Green above thy scarlet hose, How thy velvet mantle ...
Not ours, where battle smoke upcurls,And battle dews lie wet,To meet the charge that treason hurlsBy sword and bayonet.Not ours ...
This is the reed the dead musician dropped,With tuneful magic in its sheath still hidden;The prompt allegro of its music ...
The dews are heavy on my brow; My breath comes hard and low;Yet, mother dear, grant one request, Before your ...
(CEMETERY, SAN FRANCISCO)This is that hill of aweThat Persian Sindbad saw,-- The mount magnetic;And on its seaward face,Scattered along ...
O BELLS that rang, O bells that sang Above the martyrs' wilderness, Till from that reddened coast-line sprang The Gospel ...
As I stand by the cross on the lone mountain's crest, Looking over the ultimate sea,In the gloom of ...
Blown out of the prairie in twilight and dew, Half bold and half timid, yet lazy all through; Loath ever ...
Wondering maiden, so puzzled and fair,Why dost thou murmur and ponder and stare?"Why are my eyelids so open and wild?"Only ...
Behind the footlights hangs the rusty baize,A trifle shabby in the upturned blazeOf flaring gas and curious eyes that gaze.The ...
Know I not whom thou mayst be Carved upon this olive-tree,-- "Manuela of La Torre,"--For around on broken wallsSummer ...
Affection's charm no longer gilds The idol of the shrine;But cold Oblivion seeks to fill Regret's ambrosial wine.Though Friendship's offering ...
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