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Poems by George Sterling

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A B C
D E F
G H I
J K L
M N O
P Q R
S T U
V W Y

A

• The Abalone Song
  “"In the halcyon art colony days, Bohemian writers and artists congregated”
• The Abalone Song (final version)
  “Oh! some folks boast of quail and toast,”
• The Abandoned Farm
  “The moon was large across the hills”
• The Abiding Presence
  “Sorely our souls to each are ever near,”
• Absence
  “"Tis told of one whose feet awhile were led”
• Absence (StC)
  “Thy beauty is an altar where I kneel,”
• Adoration
  “Soon come the winter days, when white Altair”
• Adullam
  “David therefore departed from thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam...”
• The Aeroplane
  “Afar and high, on wings that feared no wind,”
• The Aëroplane
  “The morning washed the wind with April rain,”
• After Sunset
  “There is no wind to stir the cypress tree.”
• After the Storm
  “O turquoise morn!”
• After Vacation
  “Below her now the storming city rolls”
• Aftermath
  “Slowly among the wounded and the slain”
• Afternoon
  “The hot, huge slumber of the silent day”
• Afterward (BtB)
  “Tho Fate, for quiet prayer, might grant me all,”
• Aldebaran at Dusk
  “Thou art the star for which all evening waits—”
• An Altar of the West
  “(Point Lobos, the southern boundary of Carmel Bay)”
• The Altar-Flame
  “I saw a mountain at the close of day,”
• Altars of Victory
  “These are they that shook when the feet of War went by.”
• Amber
  “"The Bones of Agamemnon are a show!"”
• The Apothecary's
  “Its red and emerald beacons from the night”
• An April Morning
  “Slow to the wanton sun's desire”
• Art and Life
  “Written for the dedication of the Bohemian Club memorial to Bret Harte-1920.”
• "As It Was in the Beginning"
  “The royal word goes forth, and armies do”
• Ascension
  “When I contemplate this mine urgent race”
• The Ashes in the Sea
  “N. M. F.”
• At Dusk
  “Eve, and the stainèd pinions of the day,”
• At Midnight
  “Cast round me now your arms' cool wreath of white”
• At Noon
  “How still the hour!”
• At Sunset
  “Loose now thy flaming pinions on the West,”
• At the Grand Cañon
  “Thou settest splendors in my sight, O Lord!”
• At the Grave of Serra
  “'Tis midnight, and the Eagle seeks the sea,”
• At the Last
  “Now steel-hoofed War is loosen on the world,”
• At the Lily's Heart
  “Within me (roguish brother!) lives a faun”
• Atthan Dances
  “From "Lilith"”
• Autumn
  “Now droops the troubled year”
• Autumn (StC)
  “Ah! well I know that I shall never find”
• Autumn in Carmel
  “Now with a sigh November comes to the brooding land.”
• An Autumn Thrush
  “Like some regret that, half-forgot,”

B

• Ballad of St. John of Nepomuk
  “Now to you all be Christmas cheer,”
• Ballad of the Bells
  “'Twas Christmas eve upon the world;”
• Ballad of the Fatal Word
  “The boulders lie along the downs;”
• Ballad of the Grapes
  “O Sadducees and Pharisees,”
• Ballad of the Seeker
  “John o' Dreams fled North, fled North,”
• Ballad of the Swabs
  “The tale is of my grandsire”
• Ballad of Two Seas
  “"Wherefore, thy woe these many years,”
• The Battlefield at Night
  “When on war's wounded falls the final sleep,”
• The Beach by Winter Twilight
  “Here is no life except the lone patrol,”
• Beauty
  “The fairest things seem ever loneliest:”
• Beauty Afar
  “Love, it is moonlight in they heavens now,”
• Beauty and Truth
  “Between the shadowy land and voiceless sea,”
• Before Dawn
  “Grey, desolate and blind,”
• Before Dawn (CE)
  “"Tell us, O Watchman, tell us of the Night!”
• Before Dawn in America
  “Slowly the hours beyond the midnight crawl.”
• Belgium, August 1914
  “O Earth! O star of sorrow! at thy breast”
• Belovèd
  “As music out of silence, Craig, so came”
• Beneath the Redwoods
  “O Trees! so vast, so calm!”
• Betrayal
  “I”
• Beyond the Breakers
  “To James Hopper”
• "Beyond the Sunset"
  “Ere dawn of that grey hero did I read-”
• The Binding of the Beast
  “He plotted in the den of his lordship over men;”
• The Black Vulture
  “Aloof upon the day's immeasured dome,”
• Bliss Decreed
  “In all our love I find no touch of guilt:”
• Blossom or Bird
  “Darling, thy form and fragrance haunt the Spring,”
• Blue Ranges
  “Dim hills! (I cried.)”
• Bombardment
  “The womb of steel, with thunder and a moan”
• Broadway, New York 1916
  “Indifferent to a world in agony,”
• The Builders
  “The year grows old, but Progress has no age:”
• The Burden of the Past
  “Fool that I was to dream I loved before!”
• By Lonely Waters
  “Hope said: "These are the sands that she shall tread”
• By the Western Ocean
  “Craig! Craig! my Love irradiant and divine!”

C

• "Caeli Enarrant"
  “Oh I marvellous the skies”
• The Caged Eagle
  “Dost hear the west wind calling thee afar,”
• California
  “What little child but knows”
• The Caravan
  “Still, still I see, by dawn or eventide,”
• Careless
  “Beyond the purple bay”
• Caucasus
  “The bastions, lonely as the central sea,”
• A Character
  “Blunt as a child, since child he was at heart,”
• The Chariots of Dawn
  “O Night, is this indeed the morning-star,”
• Charles Warren Stoddard
  “O Muse! Within thy western hall,”
• Christmas Under Arms
  “By the star that led kings to His feet in the night of His birth,”
• The City and the Silence
  “Deeper than ocean's thunder unsubdued,”
• The City By the Sea - - - San Francisco
  “At the end of our streets is sunrise;”
• The City of Music
  “Where lonely now Scamander flows”
• Civilization at Bay
  “Can there be one whose blood from England finds”
• The Cloud
  “Said the cloud, "I am weary of flight”
• The Coming Singer
  “The Veil before the mystery of things”
• The Coming World
  “We do but cross a threshold into day.”
• The Common Cult
  “Up to the House of Mammon, from dawn to sister dawn,”
• A Compact?
  “Far up the mountain-side today”
• Compensation
  “When life is fully ripened are not we”
• Confession
  “Merely to live, O Sweet, and know thee mine!”
• Consolatrix
  “To Phoebe Apperson Hearst”
• Conspiracy
  “I had a dream of some great house of stone,”
• A Constancy of Sleep
  “Last night the sea put forth its utmost sigh,”
• Contributer
  “I brought the Apes my roses,”
• Contributor
  “I brought the Apes my roses,”
• The Cool, Grey City of Love (San Francisco)
  “Tho I die on a distant strand,”
• Coronation
  “These fragile gifts I send thee, dearest dear—”
• The Crown-Prince at Verdun
  “By Mars his hilt! this is a royal sport,”
• The Cup-Bearer
  “Nay—tremble not! 'Tis that immortal wine”
• The Cynic
  “Doubters old and doubters young,”

D

• Darkness
  “The Night sate weeping in a lonely land;”
• Dawn
  “The mountain walls send up”
• Dawn from a Western Mountain
  “'Twas but a breath ago when ceast”
• The Day
  “The vision of that day”
• The Day Of Decision
  “Twenty old men will sit around a table,”
• The Day Of Decision (CE)
  “Now is that tiger loosened on mankind”
• The Dead Captain
  “F. C. H.”
• The Death of Circe
  “Plotting by night her death,”
• The Death of Rupert Brooke
  “Poets of England, where are you to-day?”
• The Death-Chords
  “What antiphon is this, with Earth to Hell”
• Dedication
  “To Ambrose Bierce”
• Democracy
  “Because of the decision of a few,—”
• The Deserted Nest
  “A chill is on the air,”
• The Directory
  “Selective Time! 'mid all the burthened reams”
• Dirge
  “From "Lilith"”
• Discord
  “Where needles of the pine were strewn,”
• Disillusion
  “Since boyhood he had loved a certain star,”
• Divinity
  “Sweet is this hunger of my flesh for thine,”
• A Dog Waits His Dead Mistress
  “Lift not thy head at some familiar sound:”
• Doubt and Worship
  “To search thy heart! to know thine every thought!”
• A Dream of Fear
  “Unseen the ghostly hand that led,”
• The Dream of Wilhelm II
  “He, a colossus towering toward the spheres,”
• Dream's Alchemy
  “Wakeful ere dawn, I heard the mighty sweep”
• Dreamland
  “Afar! afart O Sweet, to fly afar,”
• Duandon
  “Duandon, king of Aetna's farthest bound”
• The Dust Dethroned
  “Sargon is dust, Semiramis a clod!”
• Duty
  “White on its road we saw her chariot shine,”
• The Dweller in Darkness
  “The cryptic brain, hid in its house of bone,”

E

• Earth's Anthem
  “The mighty tempest of the world-war breaks—”
• The Echo and the Quest
  “Now, as the west is red, O birds!”
• Egon's Song
  “'Twas far away, 'twas far away,”
• Eidolon
  “Eventless days have left me too serene,”
• An Elegy
  “H. M. M.”
• Enchantment
  “Bind me with spells, O Lovely sorceress,”
• England, August 1914
  “Southward again on ancient roads of war,”
• Ephemera
  “Unheard but of the spiritual ear,”
• Eros in Heaven
  “Our love is all of crystal and of fire:”
• Essential Night
  “Outreach and touch! But lo! thou hast not found!”
• The Eternal Visitant
  “Love, of whose bliss I dreamt, at last is mine,”
• Evanescence
  “I muse upon the passing of the days:”
• The Evanescent
  “The wind upon the mountain-side”
• The Evanescent City
  “Great on the west, ere darkness crush her domes,”
• Evening
  “Slowly she wanders up the river sands,”
• Evening Music
  “The myriad voicéd twilight clasps me round,”
• The Evening Star
  “Easttward in afterglow the mountains rise,”
• Everest
  “Who views thee from the plain”

F

• The Face of the Skies
  “Who shall loose Orion's bands?”
• The Face of the Star
  “Thy beauty, perilous with all delight,”
• The Fall of the Year
  “It is that season when the soul must know”
• Familiar Beauty
  “Like boyhood friends that go and come again,”
• The Far Feet
  “Afton Annesley, gone forever,”
• Farewell! Farewell!
  “Oh! was there ever face, of all the dead,”
• Farm of Fools
  “Nameless and uninvited,”
• Father Coyote
  “AT twilight time, when the lamps are lit,”
• The Faun
  “Now in the noontide peace I lie”
• The Feast
  “Never, O Death, was such a wine as this”
• Fire of Dreams
  “Dearest, didst thou in spirit all the night”
• The First Food
  “Mother, in some sad evening long ago,”
• The First-Born
  “Poet, the years will give you wiser voice;”
• The Fish Hawk
  “Because the new lawn mower did not work,”
• Flame
  “Thou art that madness of supreme desire,”
• The Fleet
  “Stand Fast! Though steel on clanging steel”
• The Flight
  “'Twas night when I hurried”
• The Fog Siren
  “The grey mist veils the deep, the seeming ghost,”
• The Fog-Sea
  “I”
• The Font of Beauty
  “Because of thee the star-crost dome of night”
• Foreboding
  “Sweet, in this love are terrors that beguile”
• Forenoon by the Pacific
  “The winds are faraway;”
• The Forest Mother
  “Athlon the king bade silence to his harps,”
• The Forty-Third Chapter of Job
  “1. Moreover, the Lord made question of Job, and”
• Frank Unger
  “Thou deepest well! On all our troubled earth,”
• From Arcady
  “Goddess and holder of my heart in pawn!”
• From Dawn to Dream
  “Soul of the world! my Paradise and dream!”
• From the Gloom
  “As one who, wandering in doubt and pain,”
• From the Mountain
  “Let us go home with the sunset on our faces—”
• From the Train
  “Who roam you, happy hills,”
• From the Valley
  “Not in the sultry garden would I be,”
• From Two Skies
  “Thou haunting loveliness and sweet despair!”

G

• The Gardens of the Sea
  “Beneath the ocean's sapphire lid”
• Germany
  “As he who shod the horses of the sun,”
• Germany in Belgium
  “I”
• Germany on the Seas
  “"The submarine then proceeded to shell the”
• The Glass of Time
  “I know a lake high up among the hills —”
• The Gleaner
  “Of all we love or long for, what can last?”
• God's Lily
  “A dream within a dream: it seemed I slept”
• The Golden Past
  “I”
• Good-bye!
  “Now thank I God that after all the years”
• The Grizzly Giant
  “Long, long ago, in unremembered years,”
• The Guerdon of the Sun
  “Of all the fonts from which man's heart has drawn”
• The Gulls
  “Leprous and bleak the marshes lie”
• Gun-Practice
  “San Francisco”

H

• Happiest
  “Calling you now, not for your flesh I call,”
• The Harlot's Awakening
  “Ere dawn a spirit took my hand,”
• Harp-Song
  “From "Lilith"”
• The Haunting
  “Dear, thou art ever with me. For it seems”
• The Hawk's Nest
  “Spring's back, and subtly stirring, deep below,”
• The Heart of Music
  “I murmur: "Craig!" At once in every vein”
• Helen Peterson
  “Died Aged Seven”
• The Helots
  “Now the grim lords of Europe have their will,”
• Henri
  “To-Night I drifted to the restaurant”
• Here and Now
  “Our brotherhood is stranger than we dream,”
• The Heritage of the Skies
  “Time was when I could whisper to the wind:”
• Hesperia
  “What spoils of perfectness from far and wide”
• Hesperian
  “Strange, when the blood runs wild to-day in me,”
• The Hidden Goddess
  “Thou hast been human ever. None the less,”
• The Hidden Pool
  “Far in a wildwood dim and great and cool,”
• "His Own Country"
  “Anuu, son of the land of Keef,”
• Homeward
  “O paths of stone, whereon the weary stray”
• The Homing of Drake
  “Drake's Bay, September 29, 1579.”
• Hope's Paradise
  “How exquisitely, darling, art thou made”
• Hostage
  “The west wind, sweet and cold,”
• The House of Orchids
  “Dedicated to Mrs. Joseph B. Coryell”
• The House of War
  “Whose heart is fed on vision, and whose mind”
• Humility in Art
  “What do they know who did not see the Dream?”
• The Hunting Of Dian
  “In the silence of a midnight lost, lost forevermore,”
• The Huntress of Stars
  “Tell me, O Night! what horses hale the moon!”

I

• 'I Loved Thee, Atthis, Long Ago!'
  “Like sonic new star upon the blue,”
• The Ideal
  “Red, in what maze of indecisive war,”
• Illusion
  “I am alone in this grey shadowland,—”
• The Immortal
  “Oh! sad or sweet are all the lapsing days,”
• In a Thousand Years
  “What will they think of this age in a thousand years,”
• In Autumn
  “Mine eyes fill, and I know not why at all.”
• In Extremis
  “Till dawn the Winds' insuperable throng”
• In the Beginning
  “In panoply the nations wait,”
• In The Market Place
  “Rev. xviii: 10-13”
• In Vain
  “To what fair thing, O thou my Sweet!”
• Inclusion
  “I have heard music and the long wave falling,”
• Indian Summer
  “Come with me to some woodland where the chill”
• The Inexorable Hour
  “Methought the Spirit of the Night took form”
• Infidels
  “Cold and eternal stare his eyes of stone,”
• Infusion
  “Her name is like a sighing in the tree”
• Insincerities
  “I said to the Muse:”
• Intimation
  “The whispers of thy soul I cannot tell:”
• Intimation (StC)
  “O shall it be, O shall it be at last”
• Invocation
  “Because of the decisions of a few,—”
• Iphigenia
  “Methought I saw that daughter of despair”
• The Iris Hills
  “From "Rosemund"”
• The Islands of the Blest
  “In Carmel pines the summer wind”

J

• The Joys Unchanging
  “The stars' communion, and the Night's pure pow'rs,”
• Justice
  “Nila the youth, first-born, whose father's name”

K

• The Killdee
  “With sound and broken gleam”
• Kindred
  “Musing, between the sunset and the dark.”
• Kingship
  “On whitest snows the darkest lies the stain.”
• Kingship (CE)
  “Mercy and peace how many warring years”
• The Kiss
  “Adored! adored! thy lips were on mine own”
• The Kiss of Consummation
  “Lo! Thou hast granted us for Thee a name,”

L

• The Lagoon
  “Where Carmel River nears the sea”
• The Last Days
  “The russet leaves of the sycamore”
• The Last Island
  “What prow shall find It? On the charts”
• The Last Man
  “Shall that august and uncompanioned one,”
• The Last Monster
  “In backward vision, from the primal dusk”
• The Last of Sunset
  “The moon-dawn, breaking on the eastern height”
• Late Tidings
  “They told me, on the day my mother died,”
• A Legend of the Dove
  “Soft from the linden's bough,”
• Life, Toil, and Love
  “In quiet, in the very silent night,”
• The Light-Giver
  “"Let there be light!" said One.”
• The Likeness of the Star
  “Kindred to Art's creative school”
• Lilies of Lethe
  “Revealed of your own light,”
• Lineage
  “As sound is not, except an ear apprise,”
• The Little Farm
  “Along the vague horizon, vapor-bound,”
• The Little Hills
  “In the land of little hills”
• Loneliest
  “Thou biddest that my tears withhold their rain”
• Lonely
  “I saw but now a wild-dove and his mate”
• Lonely Beaches
  “I have not seen those shores,”
• Longing
  “Why standest thou on Beauty's topmost peak,”
• The Loosing
  “"Where's my old dog?" I cry in jest,”
• The Lords of Pain
  “The Lords of Pain are mightier by night:”
• Lost Colors
  “Grieve not because, ephemeral, they fade.”
• Lost Companion
  “You that on the heavens look,”
• A Lost Garden
  “Under November skies,”
• Lost in Light
  “From citadels of dream I turn to see”
• Lost Music
  “Sweet, thou dost take this heart in tender hands”
• The Lost Nymph
  “Now whither hast thou flown?”
• Lost Sunsets
  “The hills are gold and grey. A random wind”
• Love and Joy
  “Oh! doubt not Love can live on dreams atone,”
• Love and Sorrow
  “O goddess of my pain! to-night I kneel”
• Love Complete
  “Why know I words, since words must ever fail”
• Love Desolate
  “So still and fragrant is the wood, O Sweet,”
• Love the Transmuter
  “I, who was lonely Beauty's loner priest.”
• Love's Companion
  “Thy memories are seraphs that abide:”
• Love's Mercy
  “The pains of Love are terrible and sweet!”
• Love's Primacy
  “Love, the one holiness—shall I resist”
• Love's Sacrament
  “How high the Dreams that in thy spirit wake!”
• Love's Shadow
  “Great love is ever sorrow. In some way”
• The Lover Waits
  “This is her home! and oh, my homeless heart!”
• The "Lusitania"
  “Above her grave the dipping sea-gulls cry”
• The Lute-Player
  “Then said I to the unassenting day:”

M

• Madrigal
  “Maiden, doff thy dream, and rise!”
• Man
  “This is that brute which travailed, uncontent”
• The Man I Might Have Been
  “Now, ere the grey and ghastly dawn”
• Manhattan
  “And what if they have gone, the towers of fame,”
• The Margaret Anglin
  “IN THE GREEK TRAGEDIES”
• The Master Mariner
  “My grandsire sailed three years from home,”
• Mediatrix
  “Voiceless, we hear thee plead,”
• Memorial Day, 1901
  “To each the city of his dream!”
• Memories
  “Now with a sigh November comes to the brooding land.”
• Memory
  “She stands beside the ocean of the Past,”
• Memory of the Dead
  “O thou that walkest with the quiet dead,”
• Menace
  “Said the Sea: "The mountains stand”
• The Messenger
  “There soared an eagle in the West,”
• The Meteor
  “Out of the midnight of the north it came,”
• The Midges
  “Alcon, the wood-god, wandering his realm,”
• A Midnight
  “The silent and insufferable night”
• The Midway Peace
  “What say the wardens there, the merciful and holy?”
• Miocene
  “Here, where this wall of sandstone leaves the ground,”
• Mirage
  “I will remember that the year was old—”
• The Mission Swallows
  “When the mating-time of the lark is near”
• Moloch
  “I said, "The dark has come too soon."”
• A Mood
  “I am grown weary of permitted things”
• Moonlight in the Pines
  “Full-starred, seraphic Night arose,”
• Morning in the Pines
  “”
• The Morning Star
  “'Mid hush of wind and constellations paling,”
• Morning Twilight
  “An early thrush acclaims the light . . .”
• The Moth of Time
  “Lo! this audacious vision of the dust—”
• The Muse of the Incommunicable
  “An echo often have our singers caught,”
• Music
  “Her face we have a little, but her voice”
• Music at Dusk
  “O, twilight, twilight! evermore to hear”
• The Music of Sleep
  “What crown of dews and opals Morning wore”
• My Brook
  “A Glorious jest my brook has found,”
• My Love
  “In woman's dark and tedious war with Fate,”
• My Songs
  “Your beauty bids my spirit fare”
• My Swan Song
  “Has man the right”
• Mystery
  “Men say that sundered by enormous nights”

N

• The Naiad's Song
  “Far down, where virgin silence reigns,”
• The New Goddess
  “Time was, indeed, O first of all things fair!”
• The New Kings
  “Not gold, but steel, O Bethlehem! they bring—”
• The New State
  “From "Ode on the Opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition"”
• Night In Heaven
  “All the harps of Heaven sang in the timeless noon-tide,”
• The Night Migration
  “It is the time of earliest spring,”
• The Night of Gods
  “Their mouths have drunken the eternal wine—”
• The Night of Man
  “Europe, how have kings dealt with thee, and sown”
• Night on the Mountain
  “The fog has risen from the sea and crowned”
• Night Sentries
  “Ever as sinks the day on sea or land,”
• Night Sounds
  “There clung a silence to the land,”
• Nightfall
  “Pure and argent, westward far,”
• Nightmare
  “Departing troubled to her tryst with Sleep,”
• The Nile
  “Low moaning in the shadows of their might,”
• Nora May French
  “I saw the shaken stars of midnight stir,”
• Norman Boyer
  “The years go by, and I am yet to be”
• North Wind
  “On a day full of the north wind,”

O

• Oblivion
  “Her eyes have seen the monoliths of kings”
• Ocean Sunsets
  “I”
• October
  “No voice hath said the mighty word "Farewell!"”
• Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning
  “As unto lighter strains a boy might turn”
• Ode on the Opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
  “Be Ye lift up, O gates of sea and land,”
• Ode to Shelley
  “Lift trumpets, silver trumpets, to the light!”
• Of America
  “January 1st, 1908”
• Of One Asleep
  “Clear you call above the grasses,”
• Old Anchors
  “They have served their part. For them the storms are done,”
• An Old Indian Remembers
  “Was it eternal youth they sought—”
• Old Partings
  “There is no wind tonight. The sea is near.”
• An Old Poem
  “So long ago I penned the words I read,”
• The Oldest Book
  “Nor seeking shall you find”
• "Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium"
  “I”
• On a City Street
  “And what the end of these, the toil and care”
• On a Portrait of Lincoln
  “This is the patient face to which was given”
• "On a Western Beach"
  “Far out, hulls down, the ships go by;”
• On Certain Verses
  “No sense of an horizon,”
• On Fifth Avenue
  “Far wandered from his wonted deck”
• On Reading the Poems of Father Tabb
  “So airy sweet the fragile song,”
• On the Sale of the Love-Letters of a Dead Poet
  “The fond and foolish lines writ for the one—”
• One Day
  “From the eternal mountains the sun”
• Our Flag
  “(May be sung to the tune of "The March of the Men of Harlech")”
• Our Western Brothers
  “At twilight time when the lamps are lit,”
• 'Out of the Night'
  “Alas for words, O Sweet!”
• Outward
  “Men say the Janic moon shows but one face,”

P

• The Pain of Beauty
  “Often I wish thou wert less subtly fair!”
• The Palette
  “Here in a marshy spot that the rains have fed,”
• The Parting
  “Gathered they sadly in that quieter day,”
• Parting
  “Darling, the wild, inexorable hour”
• The Passing of Bierce
  “(These lines were written in reply to rumor that Ambrose Bierce,”
• Passion's Hour
  “To-day the flesh contemns the craven mind”
• Past Flesh and Soul
  “Darling, if ne'er again, yet listenn now,”
• Past the Breakers
  “The world was full of the sound of a great wind out of the West,”
• Past the Panes
  “When I was ill, from my low bed”
• The Path to Paradise
  “Of all that tapestry which is the past,”
• The Pathfinders
  “Who has heard an echo of clarions from lost frontiers?”
• The Pathway
  “Through the singing pines of Carmel runs the trail to Monterey,”
• Peace
  “"Peace! Peace!" we cry and find awhile in sleep”
• The Peace of the Hills
  “For Alda”
• The Plaint of the Cottontails
  “Deem it not strange that we, the small,”
• Poe's Gravestone
  “"... old friends and the school children of Richmond. . . .”
• The Poets
  “I saw from Tamalpais die morning star”
• Posey
  “Maiden! to whom our Fates assign”
• A Possibility
  “On a windy day, in the russet reeds”
• A Prayer
  “God, Thou who bringest morning out of night,”
• Pride and Conscience
  “Considering the mystery of pain,”
• The Princess on the Headland
  “My mother the queen is dead.”
• Pumas
  “Hushed, cruel, amber-eyed,”

Q

• The Quarrel
  “This is my bread.”
• The Queen Forgets
  “What came before and afterward”
• Question
  “For this love's gage, what flower may we choose?”

R

• The Rack
  “In Hell a voice awoke,”
• Rainbow's End
  “I found it not in the heavens — the loveliness wild and strange,”
• The Ramparts and the Rose
  “The king came back from war with slaves and spoil,”
• Raoul's Song
  “From "Lilith"”
• Reason
  “Her hands, that seem so pitiless, unbar”
• Reborn
  “What realms my memories of thee enfold!”
• Reincarnation
  “Once by the sea her lips, laid hushed on mine,”
• Relativity
  “Said the little grey snipe to his brothers few,”
• Remorse
  “At the sea's verge, near Cypress Point, in Monterey County,”
• Repartee
  “I hung a horse-skull on a tree—”
• Repentance
  “How shall I face thy soul?—I, dumb and blind”
• Respite
  “Noon has her drowsy kingdom in the sky.”
• The Restoration
  “The great trust magnate views the dinosaur,”
• Resurrection
  “How hath my heart become a sweet amaze!”
• The Return
  “The wholesome flowers of autumn blow”
• Return, Romance!
  “The poets call forth the little grey words”
• Revelation
  “What mysteries can perfect love make plain!”
• The Revenge
  “Our sweet, long night of sin”
• The Roman Wall
  “(A victorian Speaks)”
• Romance
  “Thou passest, and we know thee not, Romance!”
• The Rune
  “From "Truth"”

S

• Sacrament
  “Although there gleamed no altar-plate,”
• "Sad Sea-Horizons"
  “I yearn, beside the solemn sea,”
• Safe
  “Not evermore, O universe of pain,”
• Said the Wind
  “I and my brothers are ocean-born,”
• Sails
  “In the growing haste of the world must this thing be:”
• Sanctuary
  “Often I long, in cities wrung by care,”
• Saul
  “Who shall stoop from her javelin thrown, who from her singing dart?”
• Scrutiny
  “Turn thy soul's eye on all the forms that are”
• The Sea-Fog
  “Far from the marble reaches of the foam,”
• Search Rewarded
  “I waited thee thro sacrificial years,”
• The Secret Garden
  “Hidden from all it lies”
• The Secret Room
  “No sun therein, no beam of star,”
• Seismos
  “White altar! White altar!”
• Serra Poem
  “"The shadows fall from cloud or pine”
• The Setting
  “How vast and marvellous a stage was set,”
• The Setting of Antares
  “The skies are clear, the summer night is old.”
• The Seventh Veil
  “Life, in a burst of music mad with bliss,”
• The Shadow of Immortality
  “Within the eternal music hast thou stood?”
• The Shadow of Nirvana
  “Hast ever wakened when the dark was deep,”
• Shadows of Thee
  “How picture what thy beauty is to me?”
• Shakespeare
  “Weigh you the worth and honor of a king”
• Shelley at Spezia
  “Within that peacelessness we call the sea”
• Ships of a Day
  “”
• The Sibyl of Dreams
  “The rose she gathers is invisible,”
• Silence
  “Faint is the sea's voice for so vast a thing,”
• The Silent Fane
  “There needs no spoken word to tell the pain”
• The Siren's Song
  “From "Duandon"”
• The Skull of Shakespeare
  “I”
• The Slaying of the Witch
  “Erik the prince came back from sea,”
• The Sleep of Birds
  “Where canyon-waters dimly fall or creep,—”
• The Sleepers
  “Tho weak the wintry sunlight beam,”
• Song
  “I was a sea-god's daughter,”
• A Song of Friendship
  “From "Lilith"”
• The Song of the Valkyrs
  “Horizons of the world, what hide ye from our sight?”
• Song's Futility
  “'Tis but the ghost of beauty that I bring:”
• The Song-Font
  “Oh! have thy feet trod Heaven, or hath thy flight”
• Sonnets by the Night Sea
  “I”
• Sonnets on the Sea's Voice
  “I”
• Sorrow and Joy
  “Sweet, as above thy written words I bend”
• Soul of the World
  “Nature is made a shrine where I adore:”
• The Soul Prismatic
  “Forlorn, as twilight saddens now the hills,”
• The Soul's Exile
  “Slow to Hesperian gateways cold”
• A Soul's Exile
  “Slow to Hesperian gateways cold”
• The Soul-Giver
  “O thou whose snows of body and of soul”
• The Sowers
  “Now it is April, and the plows are out.”
• The Sphinx
  “Where everlasting sleep has smoothed the frown”
• The Spirit of Beauty
  “In sleep I saw her, the immutable,”
• The Spirit of Dusk
  “Now the wide splendors of the lapsing sun”
• Spring In Carmel
  “O'er Carmel fields in the springtime the sea-gulls follow the plow.”
• Spring in Monterey
  “A hundred fisher boats are out on the bay;”
• The Star of Separation
  “Darling, my heart seems now an empty sky,”
• Star of the Soul
  “O Life! thy vast and isolating sea!”
• Stars of the Noon
  “Untaught, I meet the question of the hours—”
• The Strange Bird
  “We are not done disputing yet”
• Strange Waters
  “Low cloud and the invisible surf of thunder,”
• The Stranger
  “"Who is he that knocks so loudly”
• The Summer of the Gods
  “Methought in dream I saw Ulysses bold—”
• Sunset
  “Save of the heart there is no loneliness,”
• Survival
  “The king came back from war with slaves and spoil,”
• Sweet Poesy, She Liveth
  “In that undying garden of the years,”
• The Swimmers
  “We were eight fishers of the western sea,”
• The Swoon
  “Upon me (as on Siddim's lethal plain”

T

• Tasso to Leonora
  “FOREWORD”
• The Testimony of the Suns
  “To Whom the unceasing suns belong,”
• "That Walk in Darkness"
  “Not when the sun is captain of the skies,”
• Then and Now
  “Beyond the desolate expanse of plain”
• The Thirst of Satan
  “In dream I saw the starry disarray”
• Three Sonnets on Beauty
  “I. Enigma”
• Three Sonnets on Sleep
  “I”
• Three Voices
  “White dove, the morning light”
• Thy Child-Picture
  “O gentlest beauty! pure, untroubled face!”
• Thy Laughing Loveliness
  “California”
• Thy Picture
  “Withold, O God! the guerdon of my sight”
• "Tidal, King of Nations"
  “Genesis xiv: 1-17”
• The Tides of Change
  “Wherewith is Beauty fashioned? Canst thou deem”
• Time and Tears
  “Ere the bent skies were soft with afternoon,”
• To a Girl Dancing
  “Has the wind called you sister?”
• To a Lily
  “Thou livest yet! Then few the days,”
• To a Monk's Skull
  “You grin as though you finally had guessed”
• To Ambrose Bierce
  “Master, when worms have had their will of thee,”
• To an Elder Poet
  “Now stir the blossoms in the grass;”
• To an Old Nurse
  “Ever the thrush, on days like these of June,”
• To Belgium
  “As Rome beat down the kingdoms, one by one”
• To Browning
  “Time's whitest loves lie radiant in thy”
• To California
  “"Seventy-one political prisoners are held in this State."”
• To Charles Rollo Peters
  “(Master-Painter of Nocturnes)”
• To Colonel John S. Engs
  “Kindred to Art's creative school”
• To Craig
  “I need not now a vision's light and pow'r”
• To Critics asking Lighter Songs
  “A gentle sadness best becomes”
• To Edgar Allan Poe
  “Time, who but jests with sword and sovereignty,”
• To England
  “O mighty Mother of our heart and mind !”
• To France
  “O daughter of the morning! on thy brow”
• To France at Verdun
  “Glory to God for thy might,—”
• To Germany
  “I”
• To H. G. Wells
  “(With "The House of Orchids")”
• To Hall B. Rand
  “Happy the man whose age attains”
• To Imagination
  “Thou needest not the guides of Sense,”
• To Ina Coolbrith
  “With wilder sighing in the pine”
• To Jack London
  “Oh, was there ever face, of all the dead,”
• To Katherine
  “Discerning its abode so fair,”
• To Life
  “Witch and enchantress, I have watched you feed”
• To Margaret Anglin
  “The tears of old defeats are in your eyes,”
• To Miss Constance Crawley
  “From "Everyman"”
• To my Sister
  “O face where light and roses stir,”
• To my Wife
  “Not beauty of the marble set”
• To My Wife as May Queen
  “Goddess of hearts by beauty's right divine,”
• To One Asking Lighter Songs
  “A gentle sadness best becomes”
• To One Loved
  “God, as He shaped thy beauty, took”
• To One Self-Slain
  “The door thou chosest, gave it on the night?”
• To Pain
  “Sandalled with morning and with evening star,”
• To Robert I. Aitken
  “(Sculptor)”
• To Ruth Chatterton
  “I”
• To Science
  “And if thou slay Him, shall the ghost not rise?”
• To the Allied Arms
  “Where children slept, gun answers unto gun;”
• To the Goddess Liberty
  “(New York Harbor)”
• To the Hun
  “Not for the lust of conquest do we blame”
• To the Moon
  “Whether by starry waters westward led,”
• To the Moon (StC)
  “Loose me thy pearl, O empress of the night!”
• To the Mummy of the Lady Isis
  “In the Bohemian Club, San Francisco”
• To the War-Lords
  “I”
• To Thy Heart
  “Believest thou in God? For sombre years”
• To Twilight
  “Linger, we pray,”
• To Vera (1)
  “O sweet, wild, woodland grace!”
• To Vera (2)
  “The rain hides now the hills”
• To Vera (3)
  “O flame and dew!”
• To Vera (4)
  “Twilight, and one lone hill”
• To Vera (5)
  “My mood to-day is one with sky and land,”
• To Vera (Birthday Ode)
  “Of my heart and its fears,”
• To Vera (Blank Verse)
  “”
• To Vera at Night
  “How dark, how still, how sad the night!”
• To Vernon L. Kellogg
  “'Tis well, that man is slow to cry "Alas!"—”
• To Xavier Martinez
  “Painter”
• Transition
  “Youth, with the morning eyes,”
• Transmutation
  “I said: "O Beauty, Beauty yet to be,”
• Transmutation (StC)
  “Thine alchemy hath touched familiar things”
• Troubadour's Song
  “From "Lilith"”
• The Tryst
  “Three are the headstones where I paused to-day”
• The Turk
  “Behold him! the abominable! the beast!”
• The Twilight of the Grape
  “Homer, you would have pitied our wan choir,”
• Two Met
  “You came, and Mystery murmured in the wood;”
• The Two Prayers
  “"O Christ of peace, grant that he live!" she cried—”

U

• Ultima Thule
  “Alone I watched one twilight-time”
• The Unalterable
  “Sweetly within my heart, hushed otherwise,”
• The Unattainable
  “In love's wild desperation of desire”
• The Unavailing
  “Alas! these mad monotonies I cry,”
• Under the Rainbow
  “Behold we now that City of the Sun”
• Until Thou Comest
  “Now down the twilight floats the evening star,”
• Untitled poem
  “Untitled poem written for Charmain London in the front of 'The Caged Eagle"”
• Untitled Poem for G. von T.
  “Jack London”

V

• Venus Letalis
  “Before the least of stars had fled,”
• Verses to Craig
  “Oh! in the past, when I heard music call,”
• Vigil
  “Sleep, though the sleeper wake!”
• A Violet
  “Thee, of her frail and tender brood”
• A Vision
  “With dreams how splendid can the dark betray!”
• A Vision of Germania
  “"SPURLOS VERSENKT"”
• A Visitor
  “The winter twilight and the mournful rain”
• Visual Beauty
  “Your futile clarion is at our ears,”
• The Voice Of The Dove
  “Hear I the mourning-dove,”
• The Voice of the Wheat
  “Winds came from far away. 'Twas April weather,”
• The Voices
  “Last night the granite headland loomed”
• Vox Humana
  “(To Humphrey J. Stewart at the Organ)”

W

• War
  “The night was on the world, and in my sleep”
• War (BotB)
  “THE PAST”
• War's Music
  “As harp-strings now the swept horizons roar.”
• The War-God
  “Behold the pandar of Oblivion—”
• The War-Machine
  “Behold the monster that their hands have made!”
• Waste
  “The pain in Nature's plan”
• Wet Beaches
  “Wind's forth and ocean calls,”
• What Porridge Had John Keats?
  “Shaper of gold, in what mine of amazement”
• White Magic
  “Keep ye her brow with starshine crost”
• A White Rose
  “How pure the light thy petals hold”
• The Wild Iris
  “Afar the silent clouds go by,”
• The Wild Swan
  “Soon shall the morning break”
• Willy Pitcher
  “Sharon, Conn.”
• Willy Smith at the Ball Game
  “Happy, he heard the crass brass band—”
• The Wind
  “Unseen and ancient haunter of the skies!”
• Winds in Pines
  “Once forget-me-nots grew here,”
• The Wine of Illusion
  “I saw One dad in opalescent grey,”
• A Wine of Wizardry
  “"When mountains were stained as with wine”
• Wings
  “Impatient of the tardy axe and oar,”
• A Winter Dawn
  “Untouched by crimson or by gold,”
• A Winter Sunset
  “There seems no wind in all the land.”
• The Winter Sunset
  “The winter sunset fronts the”
• The Wiser Prophet
  “All this I dreamt. Shall any deign to hear”
• Witch-Fire
  “Said the faun to the will-o'-the-wisp:”
• "With the Strength of Dreams"
  “I saw the Lesbian Sappho bowed in light”
• Words for Lange's "Blumenlied"
  “How many flowers are gently met”
• Worship
  “Deny me not forever, for in thee”

Y

• The Yellow Rose
  “Sad Autumn is the miser of thy gold;”
• Yosemite
  “I”
• You Are So Beautiful
  “You are so beautiful that all my dreams”
• "You Never Can Tell"
  “Spindrift and bilge and the world turns over!”
• The Young Witch
  “1698”
• Youth and Time
  “Once as a boy I dreamed”