East and West: Poems

By Bret Harte

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• Language: English
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• Release date: Sep 5, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547233626

Bret Harte

Bret Harte (1836–1902) was an author and poet known for his romantic depictions of the American West and the California gold rush. Born in New York, Harte moved to California when he was seventeen and worked as a miner, messenger, and journalist. In 1868 he became editor of the Overland Monthly, a literary journal in which he published his most famous work, “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” In 1871 Harte returned east to further his writing career. He spent his later years as an American diplomat in Germany and Britain.

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Bret Harte

East and West: Poems

EAN 8596547233626

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

Part I.

Part II.

Part I.

A Greyport Legend.

(1797.)

A Newport Romance.

The Hawk's Nest.

(Sierras.)

In the Mission Garden.

(1865.)

The Old Major Explains.

(Re-Union Army of the Potomac, 12th May, 1871.)

Seventy-Nine

Mr. Interviewer Interviewed.

His Answer to Her Letter.

Reported by Truthful James.

Further Language from Truthful James.

(Nye's Ford, Stanislaus.)

The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin.

On a Cone of the Big Trees.

Sequoia Gigantea .

A Sanitary Message.

The Copperhead.

(1864.)

On a Pen of Thomas Starr King.

Lone Mountain.

(Cemetery, San Francisco.)

California's Greeting to Seward.

(1869.)

The Two Ships.

The Goddess.

For the Sanitary Fair.

Address.

Opening of the California Theatre, San Francisco, Jan. 19, 1870

The Lost Galleon.

A Second Review of the Grand Army.

Part II.

Before the Curtain.

The Stage-Driver's Story.

Aspiring Miss de Laine.

A Chemical Narrative.

California Madrigal.

On the Approach of Spring.

St. Thomas.

A Geographical Survey.

The Ballad of Mr. Cooke.

A Legend of the Cliff House, San Francisco.

The Legends of the Rhine.

Mrs. Judge Jenkins.

[Being the Only Genuine Sequel to Maud Muller.]

Avitor.

An Aerial Retrospect.

A White-Pine Ballad.

What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding-Hood.

The Ritualist.

By a Communicant of St. James's.

A Moral Vindicator.

Songs Without Sense.

For the Parlor and Piano.

Part I.

Table of Contents

A Greyport Legend

A Newport Romance

The Hawk's Nest

In the Mission Garden

The Old Major Explains

Seventy-Nine

Truthful James's Answer to Her Letter

Further Language from Truthful James

The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin

On a Cone of the Big Trees

A Sanitary Message

The Copperhead

On a Pen of Thomas Starr King

Lone Mountain

California's Greeting to Seward

The Two Ships

The Goddess

Address

The Lost Galleon

The Second Review of the Grand Army

Part II.

Table of Contents

Before the Curtain

The Stage-Driver's Story

Aspiring Miss de Laine

California Madrigal

St. Thomas

Ballad of Mr. Cooke

Legends of the Rhine

Mrs. Judge Jenkins: Sequel to Maud Muller

Avitor

A White Pine Ballad

Little Red Riding-Hood

The Ritualist

A Moral Vindicator

Songs without Sense

Part I.

A Greyport Legend.

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(1797.)

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They ran through the streets of the seaport town;

They peered from the decks of the ships that lay:

The cold sea-fog that came whitening down

Was never as cold or white as they.

"Ho, Starbuck and Pinckney and Tenterden!

Run for your shallops, gather your men,

Scatter your boats on the lower bay."

Good cause for fear! In the thick midday

The hulk that lay by the rotting pier,

Filled with the children in happy play,

Parted its moorings, and drifted clear,—

Drifted clear beyond the reach or call,—

Thirteen children they were in all,—

All adrift in the lower bay!

Said a hard-faced skipper, "God help us all!

She will not float till the turning tide!"

Said his wife, "My darling will hear my call,

Whether in sea or heaven she bide:"

And she lifted a quavering voice and high,

Wild and strange as a sea-bird's cry,

Till they shuddered and wondered at her side.

The fog drove down on each laboring crew,

Veiled each from each and the sky and shore:

There was not a sound but the breath they drew,

And the lap of water and creak of oar;

And they felt the breath of the downs, fresh blown

O'er leagues of clover and cold gray stone,

But not from the lips that had gone before.

They come no more. But they tell the tale,

That, when fogs are thick on the harbor reef,

The mackerel fishers shorten sail;

For the signal they know will bring relief:

For the voices of children, still at play

In a phantom hulk that drifts alway

Through channels whose waters never fail.