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
- Chapter 1
Dedication to Ambrose Bierce
04:33 - Chapter 2
Memorial Day, 1901
08:37 - Chapter 3
Poesy
03:50 - Chapter 4
The City of Music
01:07 - Chapter 5
To one Loved
01:57 - Chapter 6
The Summer of the Gods
01:10 - Chapter 7
The Lords of Pain
01:03 - Chapter 8
The Fog Siren
01:25 - Chapter 9
To Miss Constance Crawley in 'Everyman'
00:49 - Chapter 10
To Imagination
01:23 - Chapter 11
To a Lily
01:30 - Chapter 12
'With the Strength of Dreams'
00:54 - Chapter 13
The Testimony of the Suns
31:44 - Chapter 14
Music
11:27 - Chapter 15
A White Rose
02:21 - Chapter 16
The Soul's Exile
01:30 - Chapter 17
In the Beginning
01:54 - Chapter 18
Memory of the Dead
01:04 - Chapter 19
To my Wife
01:00 - Chapter 20
The Haunting
01:15 - Chapter 21
War
01:15 - Chapter 22
Nightmare
01:13 - Chapter 23
The Spirit of Beauty
03:08 - Chapter 24
To Katherine
01:05 - Chapter 25
Mystery
00:57 - Chapter 26
To my Sister
02:49 - Chapter 27
The Poets
01:06 - Chapter 28
Reincarnation
01:17 - Chapter 29
On Reading the Poems of Father Tabb
00:43 - Chapter 30
The Parting
01:14 - Chapter 31
Words for Lange's 'Blumenlied'
00:50 - Chapter 32
The Altar-Flame
01:06 - Chapter 33
To One Asking Lighter Songs
01:19 - Chapter 34
The Sea-Fog
01:08 - Chapter 35
The Nile
01:04 - Chapter 36
Darkness
01:27 - Chapter 37
The Ideal
01:07 - Chapter 38
To Colonel John S. Engs
00:31 - Chapter 39
'Sad Sea-Horizons'
01:52 - Chapter 40
Evening
01:11 - Chapter 41
Ultima Thule
01:28 - Chapter 42
The Swoon
01:05 - Chapter 43
The City and the Silence
01:07 - Chapter 44
The Directory
01:11