Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. 1914. A Collection of Verse by California Poets

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And order, justice, social law shall curb / Thy untamed energies; / And art and science, with their dreams superb, / Replace thine ancient ease.

—California

Bayard
Taylor

A Collection of Verse by California Poets

From 1849 to 1915

Compiled by Augustin S. Macdonald

These 105 selections fill a thin volume of representative verse of the early Golden State poets.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Preface

SAN FRANCISCO: A. M. ROBERTSON, 1914
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

Pioneer Period: 1849 to 1869
		California by Bayard Taylor
		The Golden Gate by “Caxton”—(W. H. Rhodes)
		The Song of the Flume by Anna M. Fitch
		The Sabbath Bells by John R. Ridge
		An Evening Song at Sea by C. E. Havens
		To the Sierras by J. J. Owen
		To My Mother by Stephen C. Massett
		The Lone Pine by B. P. Avery
		No Baby in the House by Clara Dolliver
		The Parting Hour (excerpt) by Edward Pollock
		Truth by G.
		The Whole Story by J. F. Bowman
		To My First Love by Crowquill
		Song of Labor; the Miner by John Swett
		Stanzas by Sarah E. Carmichael
		Hurrah for the Next that Dies! by Bartholomew Dowling
		Scotland by James Linen

“Overland” Period: 1869 to 1889
		Columbus by Joaquin Miller
		To Mrs. M—— by Richard Realf
		The Angelus by F. Bret Harte
		Madrigal by Charles Warren Stoddard
		Lines by Mark Twain
		Home by Edward Rowland Sill
		In Blossom Time by Ina Coolbrith
		Sweethearts and Wives by Daniel O’Connell
		Two Truths by Helen Hunt Jackson
		A Bird Sings in My Heart by Irene Hardy
		I Know Not How It Is with You by Robert Louis Stevenson
		Politics by Ambrose Bierce
		El Vaquero by Lucius Harwood Foote
		California Skies by Clarence Urmy
		Yosemite by Daniel S. Richardson
		Junipero Serra by Richard Edward White
		To the Colorado Desert by Madge Morris Wagner
		Music by Edward Robeson Taylor
		Mankind (excerpt) by Joaquin Miller
		Indirection by Richard Realf
		Christmas in California (excerpt) by Edward Rowland Sill
		Luke by F. Bret Harte
		The Comet by Charles Warren Stoddard
		Belle of Monterey by Einnim Havemeyer Tucker
		“The Pride of Battery B” by Frank H. Gassaway
		The Celestial Surgeon by Robert Louis Stevenson

Present Period, 1890 to 1915
		Invocation to California by Charles Keeler
		The Black Vulture by George Sterling
		Resurgam by David Lesser Lezinsky
		Just California by John S. McGroarty
		The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney
		The Creed of Desire by Bruce Porter
		To San Francisco by Samuel John Alexander
		The Shrine of Song by Louis Alexander Robertson
		The Rosary by Robert Cameron Rogers
		Lines by Yone Noguchi
		The Old Brooch by Charles F. Lummis
		The Wolves of the Sea by Herbert Bashford
		A Dream of Beauty by Clark Ashton Smith
		Women’s Eyes by Arthur William Ryder
		The Goblin Laugh by Edwin Markham
		The Awakening by Christian Binkley
		A Nosegay by Augustin S. Macdonald
		Appearances by William Henry Hudson
		The Grave of Pompey by Sister Anthony, S.N.D.
		Vivérols by David Starr Jordan
		A Memory by Carolus Ager (Charles Kellogg Field)
		A Toast by Gelett Burgess
		To the Average Man by Wallace Irwin
		Twilight Town by Ralph Erwin Gibbs
		Growth of the Soul by James Henry MacLafferty
		To My Ink-Well by Lionel Josaphare
		To a Star-Flower by Edward Howard Griggs
		Little Memories by Nora May French
		The Difference by Augustin S. Macdonald
		Lyric by Howard V. Sutherland
		Nirvana by Bernard Westermann
		Retrospection by James Rawlins
		Titans of Earth by Harold Symmes
		Quatrain by Stanley Coghill
		Sonnet by Henriette de Saussure Blanding
		When the Baby Died by A. J. Waterhouse
		A Wingless One by Herman Scheffauer
		Wireless by Henry Anderson Lafler
		The California Eschscholtzia by Amelia Woodward Truesdell
		California Sunrise by W. D. Crabb
		Out in California by C. Brown
		A Flower of the First by Charles S. Aiken
		A Year from Now by Sarah Keppel Vickery
		When I Am Gone by Isabel Pixley
		My Retreat by Albert J. Atkins
		Whom Does She Love? by Arthur William Ryder
		Sisters of the Little Sorrows by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
		Daffodils by Grace Hibbard
		Confusion by E. F. Green
		An Indian Verse by Hu Maxwell
		The Stream of Life by Lilian Lauferty
		The Change by Charles Philip Nettleton
		The Spirit of California by Rufus Steele
		Song of the Out-of-Doors by Herbert Bashford
		To William Vaughn Moody by Herbert Heron
		“The Greatest of These Is Charity” by Harriet M. Skidmore
		Glose upon a Ruba’iy by Porter Garnett
		The Poet by Ina Coolbrith
		A Life by Edward Howard Griggs
		In the Redwood Canyons by Lillian H. Shuey
		California by Augustin S. Macdonald
		Night-Sentries by George Sterling

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