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
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
The Witch
03:34 - Chapter 2
To Twilight
01:37 - Chapter 3
Henri
02:35 - Chapter 4
Conspiracy
02:28 - Chapter 5
Indian Summer
01:07 - Chapter 6
Ballad of the Fatal Word
02:29 - Chapter 7
On the Sale of the Love-Letters of a Dead Poet
01:11 - Chapter 8
Mediatrix
01:15 - Chapter 9
A Dog Waits His Dead Mistress
01:35 - Chapter 10
Humility in Art
01:43 - Chapter 11
An Autumn Thrush
01:16 - Chapter 12
The Fall of the Year
01:23 - Chapter 13
October
01:24 - Chapter 14
In Autumn
01:18 - Chapter 15
The Caged Eagle
02:36 - Chapter 16
Time and Tears
01:06 - Chapter 17
To an Old Nurse
01:59 - Chapter 18
To the Mummy of the Lady Isis
01:10 - Chapter 19
The Ramparts and the Rose
01:41 - Chapter 20
On a Portrait of Lincoln
01:38 - Chapter 21
The Tryst
03:44 - Chapter 22
A Yellow Rose
01:43 - Chapter 23
Shakespeare
03:40 - Chapter 24
The Shadow of Nirvana
01:08 - Chapter 25
The Return
01:15 - Chapter 26
Moloch
01:45 - Chapter 27
Three Sonnets on Sleep
02:42 - Chapter 28
Man
01:04 - Chapter 29
On a City Street
01:06 - Chapter 30
Illusion
01:07 - Chapter 31
Essential Night
01:13 - Chapter 32
The Gleaner
01:05 - Chapter 33
California
04:23 - Chapter 34
Ode on the Opening
13:08 - Chapter 35
The Builders
01:50 - Chapter 36
The Evanescent City
02:05 - Chapter 37
Frank Unger
00:59 - Chapter 38
To Xavier Martinez, Painter
01:06 - Chapter 39
The Light-Giver
01:54 - Chapter 40
To Margaret Anglin
01:06 - Chapter 41
The Song of the Valkyrs
02:26 - Chapter 42
The Death of Wilhelm II
01:10 - Chapter 43
Earth's Anthem
01:08 - Chapter 44
To Germany
04:03 - Chapter 45
Betrayal
01:52 - Chapter 46
Belgium, August, 1914
01:10 - Chapter 47
England, August, 1914
01:05 - Chapter 48
To the War-Lords
02:45 - Chapter 49
The War-God
01:08 - Chapter 50
The Little Farm
01:11 - Chapter 51
The House of War
01:09 - Chapter 52
'As it was in the Beginning'
01:09 - Chapter 53
To Belgium
01:06 - Chapter 54
The Two Prayers
01:10 - Chapter 55
Aftermath
01:05 - Chapter 56
The War-Machine
01:09 - Chapter 57
Bombardment
01:03 - Chapter 58
Germany
01:01 - Chapter 59
The Death-Chords
01:28 - Chapter 60
The Feast
01:26 - Chapter 61
War's Music
01:26 - Chapter 62
The Aeroplane
01:22 - Chapter 63
Before Dawn
01:15 - Chapter 64
The Turk
01:10 - Chapter 65
The New Kings
01:10 - Chapter 66
To France
01:15 - Chapter 67
The Night of Man
01:15 - Chapter 68
To the Allied Arms
01:17 - Chapter 69
The Battlefield at Night
01:19 - Chapter 70
Kingship
01:28 - Chapter 71
The Death of Rupert Brooke
01:22 - Chapter 72
The Helots
01:32 - Chapter 73
The Crown-Prince at Verdun
01:25 - Chapter 74
Before Dawn in America
01:32 - Chapter 75
Gun-Practice
01:29 - Chapter 76
To England
01:26 - Chapter 77
Civilization at Bay
01:21 - Chapter 78
The Day of Decision
01:27 - Chapter 79
Broadway, New York, 1916
01:27 - Chapter 80
The 'Lusitania'
01:23 - Chapter 81
War, The Past
01:28 - Chapter 82
War, The Present
01:27 - Chapter 83
War, The Future
01:31