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Testimony of the Suns, and other Poems

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Testimony of the Suns, and other Poems

by George Sterling

English· 01:51:46· 44 chapters
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

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Dedication to Ambrose Bierce

    04:33
  2. Chapter 2

    Memorial Day, 1901

    08:37
  3. Chapter 3

    Poesy

    03:50
  4. Chapter 4

    The City of Music

    01:07
  5. Chapter 5

    To one Loved

    01:57
  6. Chapter 6

    The Summer of the Gods

    01:10
  7. Chapter 7

    The Lords of Pain

    01:03
  8. Chapter 8

    The Fog Siren

    01:25
  9. Chapter 9

    To Miss Constance Crawley in 'Everyman'

    00:49
  10. Chapter 10

    To Imagination

    01:23
  11. Chapter 11

    To a Lily

    01:30
  12. Chapter 12

    'With the Strength of Dreams'

    00:54
  13. Chapter 13

    The Testimony of the Suns

    31:44
  14. Chapter 14

    Music

    11:27
  15. Chapter 15

    A White Rose

    02:21
  16. Chapter 16

    The Soul's Exile

    01:30
  17. Chapter 17

    In the Beginning

    01:54
  18. Chapter 18

    Memory of the Dead

    01:04
  19. Chapter 19

    To my Wife

    01:00
  20. Chapter 20

    The Haunting

    01:15
  21. Chapter 21

    War

    01:15
  22. Chapter 22

    Nightmare

    01:13
  23. Chapter 23

    The Spirit of Beauty

    03:08
  24. Chapter 24

    To Katherine

    01:05
  25. Chapter 25

    Mystery

    00:57
  26. Chapter 26

    To my Sister

    02:49
  27. Chapter 27

    The Poets

    01:06
  28. Chapter 28

    Reincarnation

    01:17
  29. Chapter 29

    On Reading the Poems of Father Tabb

    00:43
  30. Chapter 30

    The Parting

    01:14
  31. Chapter 31

    Words for Lange's 'Blumenlied'

    00:50
  32. Chapter 32

    The Altar-Flame

    01:06
  33. Chapter 33

    To One Asking Lighter Songs

    01:19
  34. Chapter 34

    The Sea-Fog

    01:08
  35. Chapter 35

    The Nile

    01:04
  36. Chapter 36

    Darkness

    01:27
  37. Chapter 37

    The Ideal

    01:07
  38. Chapter 38

    To Colonel John S. Engs

    00:31
  39. Chapter 39

    'Sad Sea-Horizons'

    01:52
  40. Chapter 40

    Evening

    01:11
  41. Chapter 41

    Ultima Thule

    01:28
  42. Chapter 42

    The Swoon

    01:05
  43. Chapter 43

    The City and the Silence

    01:07
  44. Chapter 44

    The Directory

    01:11