Testimony of the Suns, and other Poems

by George Sterling

44 chapters1h 51mEnglish1903

About this book

This is the first published volume of poetry by Californian author and poet George Sterling. These poems are the beginning of Sterling's great career as a poet, and include a number of poems in the style for which he would become famous. That style is dark and with supernatural elements, in the tradition of Thomas Hood and Edgar Allan Poe. - Summary by Carolin

Chapters (44)

1Dedication to Ambrose Bierce

273

2Memorial Day, 1901

517

3Poesy

230

4The City of Music

5To one Loved

117

6The Summer of the Gods

7The Lords of Pain

8The Fog Siren

9To Miss Constance Crawley in 'Everyman'

10To Imagination

11To a Lily

12'With the Strength of Dreams'

13The Testimony of the Suns

1904

14Music

687

15A White Rose

141

16The Soul's Exile

17In the Beginning

114

18Memory of the Dead

19To my Wife

20The Haunting

21War

22Nightmare

23The Spirit of Beauty

188

24To Katherine

25Mystery

26To my Sister

169

27The Poets

28Reincarnation

29On Reading the Poems of Father Tabb

30The Parting

31Words for Lange's 'Blumenlied'

32The Altar-Flame

33To One Asking Lighter Songs

34The Sea-Fog

35The Nile

36Darkness

37The Ideal

38To Colonel John S. Engs

39'Sad Sea-Horizons'

112

40Evening

41Ultima Thule

42The Swoon

43The City and the Silence

44The Directory

Testimony of the Suns, and other Poems

About this book

Chapters (44)

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