| 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
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 | ||