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> Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. > A Collection of Verse by California Poets
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.
C
ONTENTS
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 OConnell
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
Womens 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 Rubaiy
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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