Beyond the Breakers and other Poems

Beyond the Breakers and other Poems

by George Sterling

60 chapters2h 18mEnglish1914

About this book

George Sterling was born on Long Island, New York but spent most of his life in California where he had a successful career in business and finance. In later years he settled in the small coastal community of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Sterling's poetry was strongly influenced by the natural environment of Northern California, which was still largely unspoilt in his day, and particularly by the proximity of the vast Pacific Ocean. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Chapters (60)

1Beyond the Breakers
392
2The Master Mariner
136
3The Voice of the Dove
79
4Night Sentries
266
5The Muse of the Incommunicable
66
6The Coming Sìnger
87
7At the Grand Canyon
85
8Nightfall
64
9Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning
694
10Afterward
82
11"Tidal, King of Nations"
302
12The Last Monster
123
13Christmas under Arms
194
14War
243
15Ascension
86
16The Thirst of Satan
59
17Scrutiny
66
18Ballad of Two Seas
227
19Ballad of St. John of Nepomuk
208
20The Rack
256
21Willy Pitcher
69
22"Beyond the Sunset"
305
23Respite
85
24Kindred
84
25"That Walk in Darkness"
86
26In the Market Place
196
27The Palette
125
28The Hunting of Dian
238
29A Winter Dawn
69
30A Winter Sunset
60
31Forenoon by the Pacific
69
32A Legend of the Dove
105
33Said the Wind
129
34The Mission Swallows
105
35"Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium"
149
36"On the Western Beach"
111
37Then and Now
158
38Menace
166
39The Secret Room
75
40Past the Panes
82
41From the Mountain
75
42Discord
89
43Lineage
67
44To One Self-Slain
80
45Night on the Mountain
66
46The Abandoned Farm
156
47To H. G. Wells
119
48"Caeli Enarrant"
154
49"You Never Can Tell"
69
50Dawn from a Western Mountain
120
51The Setting
91
52The Sleepers
77
53The Sleep of Birds
92
54Spring in Monterey
126
55The Last Days
98
56NATURAL HISTORY ITEMS: Father Coyote
155
57The Lagoon
102
58Relativity
72
59The Plaint of the Cottontails
153
60A Possibility
145

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