Caged Eagle, and Other Poems

by George Sterling

83 chapters2h 24mEnglish1916

About this book

This is a 1916 volume of poetry by George Sterling, split into four parts. The first part consists of 33 of the fantastic poems for which Sterling was so famous, followed by three poems on the Panama-Pacific Exposition and four Personal Poems, and concluded with 43 poems on the then ongoing First World War. - Summary by Carolin

Chapters (83)

1The Witch

214

2To Twilight

3Henri

155

4Conspiracy

148

5Indian Summer

6Ballad of the Fatal Word

149

7On the Sale of the Love-Letters of a Dead Poet

8Mediatrix

9A Dog Waits His Dead Mistress

10Humility in Art

103

11An Autumn Thrush

12The Fall of the Year

13October

14In Autumn

15The Caged Eagle

156

16Time and Tears

17To an Old Nurse

119

18To the Mummy of the Lady Isis

19The Ramparts and the Rose

101

20On a Portrait of Lincoln

21The Tryst

224

22A Yellow Rose

103

23Shakespeare

220

24The Shadow of Nirvana

25The Return

26Moloch

105

27Three Sonnets on Sleep

162

28Man

29On a City Street

30Illusion

31Essential Night

32The Gleaner

33California

263

34Ode on the Opening

788

35The Builders

110

36The Evanescent City

125

37Frank Unger

38To Xavier Martinez, Painter

39The Light-Giver

114

40To Margaret Anglin

41The Song of the Valkyrs

146

42The Death of Wilhelm II

43Earth's Anthem

44To Germany

243

45Betrayal

112

46Belgium, August, 1914

47England, August, 1914

48To the War-Lords

165

49The War-God

50The Little Farm

51The House of War

52'As it was in the Beginning'

53To Belgium

54The Two Prayers

55Aftermath

56The War-Machine

57Bombardment

58Germany

59The Death-Chords

60The Feast

61War's Music

62The Aeroplane

63Before Dawn

64The Turk

65The New Kings

66To France

67The Night of Man

68To the Allied Arms

69The Battlefield at Night

70Kingship

71The Death of Rupert Brooke

72The Helots

73The Crown-Prince at Verdun

74Before Dawn in America

75Gun-Practice

76To England

77Civilization at Bay

78The Day of Decision

79Broadway, New York, 1916

80The 'Lusitania'

81War, The Past

82War, The Present

83War, The Future

Caged Eagle, and Other Poems

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