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
2The Master Mariner
3The Voice of the Dove
4Night Sentries
5The Muse of the Incommunicable
6The Coming Sìnger
7At the Grand Canyon
8Nightfall
9Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning
10Afterward
11"Tidal, King of Nations"
12The Last Monster
13Christmas under Arms
14War
15Ascension
16The Thirst of Satan
17Scrutiny
18Ballad of Two Seas
19Ballad of St. John of Nepomuk
20The Rack
21Willy Pitcher
22"Beyond the Sunset"
23Respite
24Kindred
25"That Walk in Darkness"
26In the Market Place
27The Palette
28The Hunting of Dian
29A Winter Dawn
30A Winter Sunset
31Forenoon by the Pacific
32A Legend of the Dove
33Said the Wind
34The Mission Swallows
35"Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium"
36"On the Western Beach"
37Then and Now
38Menace
39The Secret Room
40Past the Panes
41From the Mountain
42Discord
43Lineage
44To One Self-Slain
45Night on the Mountain
46The Abandoned Farm
47To H. G. Wells
48"Caeli Enarrant"
49"You Never Can Tell"
50Dawn from a Western Mountain
51The Setting
52The Sleepers
53The Sleep of Birds
54Spring in Monterey
55The Last Days
56NATURAL HISTORY ITEMS: Father Coyote
57The Lagoon
58Relativity
59The Plaint of the Cottontails
60A Possibility

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