Yosemite (George Sterling Poems)
IBeauty, whose face and mystery we seek,Forever longing and forever foiled,-Whose praise the voices of our art would speak,And in ...
George Sterling Poems (41 Poems)
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 ...
Spring in Carmel (George Sterling Poems)
O'er Carmel fields in the springtime the sea-gulls follow the plow. White, white wings on the blue above! White were your brow ...
Ballad of the Grapes (George Sterling Poems)
O Sadducees and Pharisees, Who harass the divine,Now harken with reluctancy How Daphne made the wine!(I drain a glass of bootleg Scotch, For ...
The Common Cult (George Sterling Poems)
Up to the House of Mammon, from dawn to sister dawn,Called by remembered voices the sons of men are drawn;By ...
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Dost hear the west wind calling thee afar, O thou that hast beheld the night withdrawn, And past the crystal thresholds of ...
The Yellow Rose (George Sterling Poems)
Sad Autumn is the miser of thy gold; But dead and meek Thy petals speak More than thy beauty told.Now art thou sister ...
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 ...
“Caeli Enarrant” (George Sterling Poems)
Oh I marvellous the skies Ere sunset close Its rich, enormous rose, Or dawn, too late, Seem a supernal gateThat opens into midmost Paradise ...
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 First Food (George Sterling Poems)
Mother, in some sad evening long ago, From thy young breast my groping lips were taken, Their hunger stilled, so soon again ...
White Magic (George Sterling Poems)
KEEP ye her brow with starshine crostAnd bind with ghostly light her hair,O powers benign, lest I accostSong's peaceless angel ...
The Day of Decision (George Sterling Poems)
Twenty old men will sit around a table, To say if madness end!Twenty old men will say if Man is able To ...
“You Never Can Tell” (George Sterling Poems)
Spindrift and bilge and the world turns over! What is the dross and what the gold?The snake and the lark ha' ...
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 ...
Youth and Time (George Sterling Poems)
Once as a boy I dreamedWhere wider waters gleamed Of ships belowThe slowly gathering western stars,The last of sunset in their ...
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 ...
Civilization at Bay (George Sterling Poems)
Can there be one whose blood from England finds Nurture and source, who sees her war to-day And yearns not for the ...
“As It Was in the Beginning” (George Sterling Poems)
The royal word goes forth, and armies do The work of devils. Agony and waste Are on the world, and the grim ...
Careless (George Sterling Poems)
Beyond the purple bayThe drowsy winds awaken to delay. Spring, a world-spirit, dips In pure turquoise her lips,And blows the bubble of ...
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 ...
The Kiss of Consummation (George Sterling Poems)
Lo! Thou hast granted us for Thee a name, But never, Lord, shall there be a name for this The storm and ...
At Dusk (George Sterling Poems)
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Autumn (StC) (George Sterling Poems)
Ah! well I know that I shall never find Thy like this side of Heaven! Well I know That whether on the ...
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 ...
Ascension (George Sterling Poems)
When I contemplate this mine urgent race And see what paths its tireless feet have worn, In silence and essential night forlorn,To ...
Beauty (George Sterling Poems)
The fairest things seem ever loneliest: The whitest lily ever blooms alone, And purest winds from widest seas are flown.High on her ...