The Swimmers (George Sterling Poems)
We were eight fishers of the western sea,Who sailed our craft beside a barren land,Where harsh with pines the herdless ...
George Sterling Poems on Night (16 Poems)
Moonlight in the Pines (George Sterling Poems)
Full-starred, seraphic Night arose,Lifting the Pleiades' dim lyreAbove that solitude where glowsRose-red Aldebaran's fire. Mute, ere the darkness could forgetThe crystal ...
The Caged Eagle (George Sterling Poems)
Dost hear the west wind calling thee afar, O thou that hast beheld the night withdrawn, And past the crystal thresholds of ...
Ballad of Two Seas (George Sterling Poems)
"Wherefore, thy woe these many years,O hermit by the sea?What is the grief the winds awake,And the waters cry to ...
The Fog-Sea (George Sterling Poems)
IThe morning is ten thousand miles away. The winter night surrounds me, vast and cold, Without a star. The voiceless fog is ...
The Revenge (George Sterling Poems)
Our sweet, long night of sinEnded in slumber. On my moving breastSlowly her small, delightful head found restFrom all the ...
At Midnight (George Sterling Poems)
Cast round me now your arms' cool wreath of white Forget the day's far wakening, and lie More close! Without, the weary world ...
Art and Life (George Sterling Poems)
The children of the flesh of men, They pass from night to night;They weep and laugh and labor, then Are lost to ...
Ballad of the Seeker (George Sterling Poems)
John o' Dreams fled North, fled North, Led by a certain star,Till he came to peaks that he could not climb, So cold ...
At Sunset (George Sterling Poems)
Loose now thy flaming pinions on the West, Vega, thou heavenly lamp of my desire! Now burns the sun upon its crimson ...
At the Lily’s Heart (George Sterling Poems)
Within me (roguish brother!) lives a faun Demure as any whom Arcadian bees Made drowsy with their murmur, or the sea'sFar thunder ...
“With the Strength of Dreams” (George Sterling Poems)
I saw the Lesbian Sappho bowed in light Before the sapphire altar of the sea- Song-swept, a lyre on which in threnodyTh' ...
The Swoon (George Sterling Poems)
Upon me (as on Siddim's lethal plain And on the cities of accurst desire Came in its panoply of clinging fireFrom Heaven's ...
Memory (George Sterling Poems)
He stands beside the ocean of the Past,A diver. Pearls and hydras can she bring,Shells for the child and crystals ...
The Huntress of Stars (George Sterling Poems)
Tell me, O Night! what horses hale the moon!Those of the sun rear now on Syria's day,But here the steeds ...
“In Extremis” (George Sterling Poems)
Till dawn the winds' insuperable throngpassed over like archangels in their might,with roar of chariots from their stormy height,and broken ...