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Potential Titles: George Sterling
On wings that feared no wind - George Sterling "The Aeroplane"
Only the brook can tell - George Sterling "After the Storm"
Crimson fingers lift a crimson grain - George Sterling "Aftermath"
No word but peace - George Sterling "Afternoon"
A timeless vision and a ghostly fire - George Sterling "Afterward (BtB)"
She dreams in silver - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Brim with light the blue estates - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
The purple wings of Night - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Lone and everlasting rose of light - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Broke loose to a remoter sky - George Sterling "The Altar Flame"
Upon this iron world - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Defy time and its hidden lords - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
To watch with compensating eyes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
All too wild for speech - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The blaze of peaceless stars - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Whose ancient salt is in our blood - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Each elder tree a king - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Menaced by invading fire - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
On the tides of peril drawn - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The sky-line's crimson harbors - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Those last red relics of departing light - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
A chant of giants heard afar - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
White as the moon's cold hands - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Crouched like silent foes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Like winds that have no home - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The portent and the veil - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
With names of battle-thunder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"
Mounds of immortal dust - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"
In shining courts of wonder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"
Emerald beacons from the night - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Myrrh of splendid swoons - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Past the green and scarlet moons - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Each hath his mercy - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Each a certain law - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Shall haunt you in the house of Peace - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Time's accusing record unerased - George Sterling "As It Was in the Beginning"
In memory's regretful night - George Sterling "At Dusk"
The moments purchased by despair - George Sterling "At Midnight"
The sun upon its crimson pyre - George Sterling "At Sunset"
Nor altars builded to Oblivion - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"
Where Titan hosts have warred - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"
Eternally intones its woe - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
In an age of infamy and gold - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
Shall she find her wages also death? - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
Beauty for a moth's desire - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
By the bitter years withdrawn - George Sterling "At the Lily's Heart"
To give thy mouth its flame - George Sterling "Atthan Dances"
What star of Time forsakes her - George Sterling "Autumn"
On the ways of dream I go - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Lonely in her golden glow - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Secret with the homeless wind - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
And all my memory is made thy throne - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Like a tear of everlasting dew - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Between blazing cliffs of light - George Sterling "Ballad of the Bells"
Up to her knees in scarlet foam - George Sterling "Ballad of the Grapes"
Like scarlet domes of Avalon - George Sterling "Beauty Afar"
The sorrow of Time's laughter - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"
With tears of bitter light - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"
Made sister to the wordless wind - George Sterling "Before Dawn"
The narrow path of joy - George Sterling "Before Dawn"
Half sorrow and half peace - George Sterling "Beneath the Redwoods"
To the twilight of the bitter sands - George Sterling "Betrayal"
Who shall grapple with lions - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"
Ran like dragons driven by gods - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"
Between the thunder and the sun - George Sterling “The Black Vulture”
The silence of the sky - George Sterling “The Black Vulture”
Above the caldrons of the storm - George Sterling "The Black Vulture"
Wreathing her forehead with a scarlet vine - George Sterling "Blue Ranges"
And pride of guarding flame - George Sterling "Caeli Enarrant"
Past the crystal thresholds of the dawn - George Sterling "The Caged Eagle"
All the scarlet buried in the bud - George Sterling "California"
Timeless thrones of snow - George Sterling "California"
And all his mind took fire - George Sterling "A Character"
Like a wind some hidden world put forth - George Sterling "A Character"
The abrupt ferocities of chance - George Sterling "A Character"
Honey from illusion's stinging hive - George Sterling "A Character"
Sorrow and Art made Love - George Sterling "A Character"
A troop of royal sunsets - George Sterling "A Character"
Where golden altars fume - George Sterling "The Chariots of Dawn"
Stars that pass in alien fire - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"
Lit his garden with a lamp of gold - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"
Ocean's thunder unsubdued - George Sterling "The City and the Silence"
With the amber of afterglow - George Sterling "The City and the Silence"
From headlands of celestial gold - George Sterling "The City of Music"
Go winged with crystal fire - George Sterling "The Common Cult"
Of golden shadows in our dream - George Sterling "Compensation"
To see the sun drip gold - George Sterling "Confession"
Shorn of dreams and free of thirst - George Sterling "The Cynic"
Lilies of celestial gold - George Sterling "Dawn from a Western Mountain"
Thy doom upon the poisoned wind - George Sterling "The Day of Decision (CE)"
With grey, demoniac breath - George Sterling "The Death of Circe"
The music of forgotten dreams - George Sterling "The Directory"
Regret for every fallen leaf - George Sterling "Discord"
Rose whose thorn is ecstasy - George Sterling "Doubt and Worship"
On tombs where Time lay dead - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
To whisper what their roots had found - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
The menace of infinity constrained - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
And clangor of ascending chains - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
A skull that glared upon the stars - George Sterling "The Dream of Wilhelm II"
The crimson fountains of the dawn - George Sterling "Duandon"
Till drawn by some new sorrow - George Sterling "Duandon"
From kingdoms of the sapphire vast - George Sterling "Duandon"
And ancient as the air - George Sterling "Duandon"
Nor all the stars' invincible array - George Sterling "Duandon"
From broadest tapestries of foam - George Sterling "Duandon"
A scarlet shell before his feet - George Sterling "Duandon"
Whose fragile dome is crimson - George Sterling "Duandon"
By violet foam at twilight tost - George Sterling "Duandon"
The voice of Heaven's whitest star - George Sterling "Duandon"
Twin stars above those azure ways - George Sterling "Duandon"
A foam-white arm that beckoned once - George Sterling "Duandon"
In silver webs had snared the sea - George Sterling "Duandon"
Before his doom-bewildered eyes - George Sterling "Duandon"
Saw the sapphire fields of ocean blaze - George Sterling "Duandon"
The turquoise battlements of noon - George Sterling "Duandon"
As twilight mixed its purple - George Sterling "Duandon"
Sunset, like a golden blade - George Sterling "Duandon"
Grey as with oblivion - George Sterling "Duandon"
From crimson victories of war - George Sterling "Duandon"
One with the reaches of infinity - George Sterling "Duandon"
Altars of the buried sun made red - George Sterling "Duandon"
On waters, grey and lone - George Sterling "Duandon"
Gone like the shadow of a vanished cloud - George Sterling "Duandon"
From azure gulfs to dream - George Sterling "Duandon"
Thunder-chorded surf on yellow sands - George Sterling "Duandon"
Her beacon to a goal divine - George Sterling "Duty"
Face unfaltering the Wrath - George Sterling "Duty"
Anger in oil and stone - George Sterling "Earth Song"
Graven on tendon and bone - George Sterling "Earth Song"
Frontiers of flame and thunder - George Sterling "Earth's Anthem"
A victim of the curse of thought - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
Idle as any song of mine - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
Unmastered still by disbelief - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
On ancient roads of war - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
Be as a rope of sand - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
Where winds of sorrow blow - George Sterling "Evanescence"
The centuries that foster thee - George Sterling "The Evanescent"
Descendent from the starry throng - George Sterling "The Evanescent"
Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
With her dust upon the twilight winds - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
The mournful music of the years - George Sterling "The Fall of the Year"
Exile and a home withheld - George Sterling "The Fall of the Year"
On wizard roads of shadow - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
Our wingless gold of earth - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
Pan's hoofprints in the corn - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
With tinsel crowns put by - George Sterling "The Faun"
Too sad to watch the sky - George Sterling "The Faun"
In thy veins a scarlet venom - George Sterling "The Feast"
A famished star made desperate - George Sterling "Fire of Dreams"
That no memory can sweeten - George Sterling "The First Food"
Peace to thine unforgetting heart - George Sterling "The First Food"
Once mirror to the mountain - George Sterling "The First Born"
And strong to serve the Star - George Sterling "The Fleet"
The whitest beacon on the coasts of Time - George Sterling "The Fleet"
The sea alone hath speech - George Sterling "Forenoon by the Pacific"
And grey disposal of mine art - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
When the rain has washed the dark - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
Guardian and serf of that grey house - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
Who hath strange laughter - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Against the day of thy hope - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Thou takest to thee strange wine - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
And the dust as the stars that conceive - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
No truce with the day - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Their swords against the abyss - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
The dust is troubled for a season - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Where Love's white altars gleam - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
Rebuild the palace of the night - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
That sinks upon a lily's breast - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
No moon nor friendly stars attain - George Sterling "From the Gloom"
The sifted sunlight passed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
The azure blaze of scentless flowers - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
In living stars and blazoned bands - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
And forms in restless crimson dyed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
The lilies of the moon - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
Like a bead along the thread of light - George Sterling "The Glass of Time"
Shall find the feet of Change are fast - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
Where ashen gardens house the pilgrim sands - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
Alone with anguish and the dark - George Sterling "The Golden Past"
Through sealed, ungiven tears - George Sterling "Good-bye!"
With witness of a light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Take their symbol from the light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Based on heaven's blue - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
That crown his labor done - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
In solitude go free - George Sterling "The Gulls"
The hidden grace of vanished years - George Sterling "Harp-Song"
The only rapture worthy of the cost - George Sterling "Harp-Song"
When today is yesterday - George Sterling "Harp-Song"
Nor mix farewell with prayer - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"
What Time beheld so fair - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"
For now his soul has taken iron - George Sterling "Henri"
And on thy mouth lost roses - George Sterling "Hesperia"
With Heaven a golden mist beyond - George Sterling "Hesperia"
Her poppies dropped in flight - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Had gathered the night's last tear - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Girdled half of a world in gold - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Watched the golden reefs of sunset fade - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Heedless of Time and the jealous stars - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Where the wind ran grey - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Between the sapphire and the pines - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Took an ocean for its harp - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Have seen your scarlet over a setting sun - George Sterling "Hesperian"
A flower of elfin gold - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
When that flower of fear had broken - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
To pluck that flower of doom - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
Wardens of the far-sought gold - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
Beyond the grey and desolate Gate - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
Of all the tides of conquest - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
To us time's sea is strange - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
Veined with sullen gold - George Sterling "Hostage"
Another leaf from life's wild rose - George Sterling "Hostage"
With spirits of unnumbered rains - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
The hidden harp of memory - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Had mourned in Eden's evening - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Are half the music of the Past - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Of some black lily, still and venomous - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
An ivory poison, sweet and cold - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
The heart's high memories unaware - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Some garden built by sin - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
How marvelous the lure - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
With portent of a Golden Age - George Sterling "The House of War"
As eagles of destruction ride - George Sterling "The House of War"
In midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
Drown Orion in a silver swoon - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
Or quench their starry thirst - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
Hewn in midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
When the spirit's chains are rust - George Sterling "In a Thousand Years"
Where tears alone are fruit - George Sterling "In Autumn"
The harvest of annihilating years - George Sterling "The Inexorable Hour"
And danced on five dew drops - George Sterling "Insincerities"
To hold by faith a heart's untested gold - George Sterling "Intimation"
Their reefs of sunken gold - George Sterling "The Islands of the Blest"
From these Time steals no glory - George Sterling "The Joys Unchanging"
Heard the stars plot evil - George Sterling "Justice"
Grey as any rain - George Sterling "Justice"
A whisper touched the wind - George Sterling "Justice"
Woven with the shadows of my dream - George Sterling "The Killdee"
The hushed lips of Evening - George Sterling "The Killdee"
And watch our isolated sun decline - George Sterling "Kindred"
Twilight in unhesitating hands - George Sterling "Kindred"
To enchanted silence flows - George Sterling "The Kiss"
The salt and amber sand - George Sterling "The Lagoon"
What golden people call it home? - George Sterling "The Last Island"
Swept by winds that never blew before - George Sterling "The Last of Sunset"
That gave her heart to dust - George Sterling "A Legend of the Dove"
Float with unheeded fire - George Sterling "The Light-Giver"
Now content with memories - George Sterling "Lost Companion"
Hold the sorrows of the wind - George Sterling "Lost Companion"
From citadels of dream - George Sterling "Lost in Light"
The lost, unhappy rain - George Sterling "Lost Sunsets"
Saw wilder sunsets drown - George Sterling "Lost Sunsets"
Stand equal in their flame - George Sterling "Love's Mercy"
Have in quest the trusted light - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
Power, with encrimsoned hands - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
Absolve the future of its fears - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
Beside the ocean of the Past - George Sterling "Memory"
Trophies of tides invincible - George Sterling "Memory"
The portals of the ruined past - George Sterling "Memory of the Dead"
From the sapphire of infinity - George Sterling "The Meteor"
On paths that memory retraces - George Sterling "Mirage"
Hold me exile of their star - George Sterling "Mirage"
Had baffled Time and Fate - George Sterling "A Mood"
Ere the darkness could forget - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
That time would teach her dream - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
A wilder glory touched the wood - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
In realms now formless in the dust - George Sterling "A Morning Hymn"
Mutations of arrested light - George Sterling "Morning in the Pines"
With radiance of wings immortal - George Sterling "The Morning Star"
This audacious vision of the dust - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
When matter's chain shall rust - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
The undying kings, Silence and Death - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
The wind of lonely places - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Wander on the sands of doom - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Haunting yet the dusk of unforgotten days - George Sterling "Music"
That sorrow in the ocean's voice - George Sterling "Music"
Her chords of shadowy gold - George Sterling "Music"
And reveal the deep of stars - George Sterling "Music"
To the wounded viols pleading - George Sterling "Music at Dusk"
On the pathway of the sun - George Sterling "Music at Dusk"
Taken in the toils of Sleep - George Sterling "The Music of Sleep"
My heart is hungered fire - George Sterling "The New Goddess"
A worship of a grimmer kind - George Sterling "The New Kings"
Whose streets with tears are wet - George Sterling "The New State"
And haughty in their music - George Sterling "Night in Heaven"
Dreams of the abandoned nest - George Sterling "The Night Migration"
Below the migrant winter stars - George Sterling "The Night Migration"
Time's adoration of Eternity - George Sterling "The Night of Gods"
Of kingdoms past and gods undone - George Sterling "The Night of Gods"
Whose roots take hold on Hell - George Sterling "The Night of Man"
Alert and faithful in the night - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Whatever menace be - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Ablink like dragon-eyes - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Lamps in rooms of pain - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Until their memory be fled - George Sterling "The Nile"
The shaken stars of midnight stir - George Sterling "Nora May French"
In question at oblivion's brink - George Sterling "Norman Boyer"
With onyx pebbles and orange weed - George Sterling "North Wind"
The twilight of those sapphire stones - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"
Ashes of the sun-deserted gold - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"
Beheld that crimson billow soar - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"
The crimson gardens of the mourning air - George Sterling "October"
Gives Hope her haven - George Sterling "October"
Lonely voices at her heart - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"
With the stars in doubt - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"
The menace of that lethal time - George Sterling "Of America"
Weaves a coverlet of dust - George Sterling "Old Anchors"
Weary of the rainless sands - George Sterling "An Old Indian Remembers"
Recall the starlight in the tear - George Sterling "Old Partings"
In the storm's black universe - George Sterling "On Fifth Avenue"
Circe folded in the sunset's gold - George Sterling "The Pain of Beauty"
Follow with the sound of gold - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Their gold was the gold of earth - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
That sleep in the barrows of oblivion - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Whose gold is the gold of eternity - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Peace to the dust of the conquerors - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
The purple kingdoms of the old mirage - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Brown and brittle falls the leaf - George Sterling "The Pathway"
Red and gold of sunset wines - George Sterling "The Pathway"
The tiger-haunted garden - George Sterling "Peace"
Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"
Considering the mystery of pain - George Sterling "Pride and Conscience"
My heart is sister of ice - George Sterling "The Princess on the Headland"
A better excuse for the song - George Sterling "The Quarrel"
And like a lily broke - George Sterling "The Rack"
Far below the crimson star - George Sterling "The Rack"
A rose of sorrow and change - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"
Turn my gaze to the dawn - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"
Gold is on the heart's horizon - George Sterling "Reborn"
Sorrow's star, forlornly cold - George Sterling "Reborn"
Hunger in the perished years - George Sterling "Reborn"
And sudden starlight in remembering tears - George Sterling "Reincarnation"
The twilight tells not which - George Sterling "Remorse"
With clamors frozen at his heart - George Sterling "Remorse"
Above the rising sea of human tears - George Sterling "Remorse"
Out of darkness and unhallowed years - George Sterling "Repentance"
Holds forever, like a shell - George Sterling "Respite"
Silence has half her will - George Sterling "Respite"
With tyrant dreams that startle - George Sterling "Resurrection"
And hunger for departed hours - George Sterling "Revelation"
May teach a thousand things unsaid - George Sterling "Revelation"
Standing on the dust of kings - George Sterling "Romance"
They sow a bitter grain - George Sterling "Safe"
And webs as white as milk - George Sterling "Sails"
The lonely chalice of your peace - George Sterling "Sanctuary"
Where midnight merges to infinity - George Sterling "Shelley at Spezia"
Of that wan orchid of despair - George Sterling "The Sibyl of Dreams"
By hesitating spirits of the wind - George Sterling "The Sibyl of Dreams"
Burden the winds with thunder - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Across the tumult wake the Past - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Of harps reborn from legend's dust - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Move with phantoms unbegot - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
The tides of Time in travail - George Sterling "The Spirit of Beauty"
Splendors of the lapsing sun - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"
The grey wings of fleeting Twilight - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"
The sullen emerald of the pines - George Sterling "Spring in Monterey"
Meet the question of the hours - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
The sapphire walls of noon forbid - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
As love by silence hid - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Whom all the swords of sunset bar - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Reach past the departed sun - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
The seas of shadow call - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Tender as sleep to old regret - George Sterling "The Strange Bird"
The shadow of the wings of Time - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
In that undying garden of the years - George Sterling "Sweet Poesy, She Liveth"
And scarves of rustling foam - George Sterling "The Swimmers"
Alien terrors and unknown surmise - George Sterling "The Swimmers"
The sea's immeasured lyre - George Sterling "The Swimmers"
The cities of accurst desire - George Sterling "The Swoon"
Clinging fire from Heaven's arsenal - George Sterling "The Swoon"
Had numbered all the nerves of pain - George Sterling "The Swoon"
An echo in the abysses of the heart - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The swift fulfilment of all dreams - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Torn from the clasping day - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
A wandering echo in the night of Change - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The ghost of something futile and forgot - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The grief and music of forgotten lives - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
As dust that gathered to a rose - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The battle of contending skies - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
With what blood of wars divine - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Beyond Orion's dreadful sword of suns - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Reserves and urgencies of light - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
From insurgent deeps impelled - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Archival gloom, prophetic flame - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
And winds of the forgotten morn - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
The music of her age of gold - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Crowned upon the ashen sun - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Her transitory throne of fire - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
The Hydra's crimson heart - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
From the dark a dust of fire - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Where Life looks forth on Time - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
The throned infinity of law - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
A needle on the nerves of sight - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Or kindred mystery and hope - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Gone forth to Time's transmuting storms - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Whoso drinks her beauty's golden wine - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"
And scarlet trumpets pealing in the blood - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"
Rose like minarets of dream - George Sterling "Then and Now"
That clutched the deviating earth - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
Draining the bitter oceans - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
In the face of the offended sun - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
The dome of unremembered nights - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
A beacon on the cosmic deep - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
From the starlight and the surge - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
Each marvel would outgrow - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
Whose light is not in the refusing dawn - George Sterling "Thy Laughing Loveliness"
They that supped with War - George Sterling "Tidal, King of Nations"
Awake no winds but bear her dust - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
Echo of a music once supreme - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
The ghost of dawns forgotten - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
Your footfall on our star - George Sterling "To a Girl Dancing"
That should foil oblivion - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"
Endure the light which is the truth - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"
Time's whitest loves lie radiant - George Sterling "To Browning"
The harvests of her ancient rain - George Sterling "To Germany"
And bid the stars of morning sing - George Sterling "To Germany"
Time's sure and ancient treachery - George Sterling "To Ina Coolbrith"
Where Memory, with tireless sight - George Sterling "To Katherine"
The power of your deluding wine - George Sterling "To Life"
Where light and roses stir - George Sterling "To My Sister"
Are loyal to that alien light - George Sterling "To One Self-Slain"
The fleeting music scattered - George Sterling "To One Self-Slain"
Nor stand in flame beside me - George Sterling "To Pain"
Had touched the world to grey - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Once sighted over seas of blood - George Sterling "To the Goddess Liberty"
Time's purple deepens to oblivion - George Sterling "To the Moon"
Purchase me the freedoms of celestial sorcery - George Sterling "To the Moon (StC)"
Would lie on shattered roses - George Sterling "To Vera (5)"
The fields with hints of terror sown - George Sterling "To Vernon L. Kellogg"
Demanding the impossible for food - George Sterling "Two Met"
Thy voice in crystal echo - George Sterling "The Unalterable"
On fabled sands of gold - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
Ambers found in dream alone - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
A bubble lifting from enchanted light - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
Is bitter with our love's delay - George Sterling "Until Thou Comest"
Squander the year's unhoarded gold - George Sterling "Untitled Poem"
The truce of time and tears - George Sterling "Vigil"
Half its glowing temples fall to ash - George Sterling "A Visitor"
The rain's grey army passed - George Sterling "A Visitor"
The abiding secret of our tears - George Sterling "Visual Beauty"
A hunger for horizons - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"
Shall reap the years of peace - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"
The harvest of my proven gold - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"
To morning's throne of gold - George Sterling "The Voices"
That domain and interval of dream - George Sterling "War"
The challenge of contending suns - George Sterling "War's Music"
His priests in gold and scarlet - George Sterling "The War-Machine"
In what mine of amazement - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"
The metal Time's acid eats not - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"
The mystery hid in the flame - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"
And bind with ghostly light - George Sterling "White Magic"
As eastward woke a thorny star - George Sterling "White Magic"
Hath the Edens in her gift - George Sterling "White Magic"
Lost in a still, enchanted land - George Sterling "White Magic"
A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"
Her haunted heart forgets - George Sterling "White Magic"
Twilight music that regrets - George Sterling "White Magic"
Weaves it with a troubled wind - George Sterling "White Magic"
From the loom of suns that sink - George Sterling "White Magic"
The restless winds of thought - George Sterling "Willy Pitcher"
In nameless cities of the past - George Sterling "The Wind"
Beyond the sapphire miles - George Sterling "The Wind"
In which a sun was deathless - George Sterling "The Wine of Illusion"
Dead stars were strewn like sands - George Sterling "The Wine of Illusion"
Wherein a splendid poison burns - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
At fall of some disastrous night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Like a crimson throat to hell - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Lost in palaces of silence - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Orbs that graven monsters clasp - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Made equal in the dust - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Icy philters brim with scarlet foam - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Seeks the silence of a vaster night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
A crimson spider hidden in a skull - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Whose scarlet venom crawls - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Onyx waters stilled by gorgeous oils - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Untouched by crimson or by gold - George Sterling "A Winter Dawn"
Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Conscious of the thing foretold - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Passing from mirage to final dust - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
I am fire to the bold - George Sterling "Witch-Fire"
Before the sapphire altar of the sea - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"
One with the wine of night - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"
On heavens and hearts that dream - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
On custom's rust and Beauty's dust - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
By duty and the alchemy of tears - George Sterling "Yosemite"
A mist before Time's sun - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Iron litanies of worlds that die - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Where the feet of Time are slow - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Unaltered by the lightnings - George Sterling "Yosemite"
The compassion of their night - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Crystal voices lifted to thine ears - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Goes forth on scarlet thresholds - George Sterling "Yosemite"
The world's arisen shade - George Sterling "Yosemite"
A sudden flower blooms in my heart - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
And music all too poor - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
Whose is the blood in thy broken chalice? - George Sterling "You Never Can Tell"
And solitary oceans then unknown - George Sterling "Youth and Time"
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Only the brook can tell - George Sterling "After the Storm"
Crimson fingers lift a crimson grain - George Sterling "Aftermath"
No word but peace - George Sterling "Afternoon"
A timeless vision and a ghostly fire - George Sterling "Afterward (BtB)"
She dreams in silver - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Brim with light the blue estates - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
The purple wings of Night - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Lone and everlasting rose of light - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Broke loose to a remoter sky - George Sterling "The Altar Flame"
Upon this iron world - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Defy time and its hidden lords - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
To watch with compensating eyes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
All too wild for speech - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The blaze of peaceless stars - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Whose ancient salt is in our blood - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Each elder tree a king - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Menaced by invading fire - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
On the tides of peril drawn - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The sky-line's crimson harbors - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Those last red relics of departing light - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
A chant of giants heard afar - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
White as the moon's cold hands - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Crouched like silent foes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Like winds that have no home - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The portent and the veil - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
With names of battle-thunder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"
Mounds of immortal dust - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"
In shining courts of wonder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"
Emerald beacons from the night - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Myrrh of splendid swoons - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Past the green and scarlet moons - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Each hath his mercy - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Each a certain law - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Shall haunt you in the house of Peace - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Time's accusing record unerased - George Sterling "As It Was in the Beginning"
In memory's regretful night - George Sterling "At Dusk"
The moments purchased by despair - George Sterling "At Midnight"
The sun upon its crimson pyre - George Sterling "At Sunset"
Nor altars builded to Oblivion - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"
Where Titan hosts have warred - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"
Eternally intones its woe - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
In an age of infamy and gold - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
Shall she find her wages also death? - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
Beauty for a moth's desire - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
By the bitter years withdrawn - George Sterling "At the Lily's Heart"
To give thy mouth its flame - George Sterling "Atthan Dances"
What star of Time forsakes her - George Sterling "Autumn"
On the ways of dream I go - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Lonely in her golden glow - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Secret with the homeless wind - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
And all my memory is made thy throne - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Like a tear of everlasting dew - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Between blazing cliffs of light - George Sterling "Ballad of the Bells"
Up to her knees in scarlet foam - George Sterling "Ballad of the Grapes"
Like scarlet domes of Avalon - George Sterling "Beauty Afar"
The sorrow of Time's laughter - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"
With tears of bitter light - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"
Made sister to the wordless wind - George Sterling "Before Dawn"
The narrow path of joy - George Sterling "Before Dawn"
Half sorrow and half peace - George Sterling "Beneath the Redwoods"
To the twilight of the bitter sands - George Sterling "Betrayal"
Who shall grapple with lions - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"
Ran like dragons driven by gods - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"
Between the thunder and the sun - George Sterling “The Black Vulture”
The silence of the sky - George Sterling “The Black Vulture”
Above the caldrons of the storm - George Sterling "The Black Vulture"
Wreathing her forehead with a scarlet vine - George Sterling "Blue Ranges"
And pride of guarding flame - George Sterling "Caeli Enarrant"
Past the crystal thresholds of the dawn - George Sterling "The Caged Eagle"
All the scarlet buried in the bud - George Sterling "California"
Timeless thrones of snow - George Sterling "California"
And all his mind took fire - George Sterling "A Character"
Like a wind some hidden world put forth - George Sterling "A Character"
The abrupt ferocities of chance - George Sterling "A Character"
Honey from illusion's stinging hive - George Sterling "A Character"
Sorrow and Art made Love - George Sterling "A Character"
A troop of royal sunsets - George Sterling "A Character"
Where golden altars fume - George Sterling "The Chariots of Dawn"
Stars that pass in alien fire - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"
Lit his garden with a lamp of gold - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"
Ocean's thunder unsubdued - George Sterling "The City and the Silence"
With the amber of afterglow - George Sterling "The City and the Silence"
From headlands of celestial gold - George Sterling "The City of Music"
Go winged with crystal fire - George Sterling "The Common Cult"
Of golden shadows in our dream - George Sterling "Compensation"
To see the sun drip gold - George Sterling "Confession"
Shorn of dreams and free of thirst - George Sterling "The Cynic"
Lilies of celestial gold - George Sterling "Dawn from a Western Mountain"
Thy doom upon the poisoned wind - George Sterling "The Day of Decision (CE)"
With grey, demoniac breath - George Sterling "The Death of Circe"
The music of forgotten dreams - George Sterling "The Directory"
Regret for every fallen leaf - George Sterling "Discord"
Rose whose thorn is ecstasy - George Sterling "Doubt and Worship"
On tombs where Time lay dead - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
To whisper what their roots had found - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
The menace of infinity constrained - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
And clangor of ascending chains - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"
A skull that glared upon the stars - George Sterling "The Dream of Wilhelm II"
The crimson fountains of the dawn - George Sterling "Duandon"
Till drawn by some new sorrow - George Sterling "Duandon"
From kingdoms of the sapphire vast - George Sterling "Duandon"
And ancient as the air - George Sterling "Duandon"
Nor all the stars' invincible array - George Sterling "Duandon"
From broadest tapestries of foam - George Sterling "Duandon"
A scarlet shell before his feet - George Sterling "Duandon"
Whose fragile dome is crimson - George Sterling "Duandon"
By violet foam at twilight tost - George Sterling "Duandon"
The voice of Heaven's whitest star - George Sterling "Duandon"
Twin stars above those azure ways - George Sterling "Duandon"
A foam-white arm that beckoned once - George Sterling "Duandon"
In silver webs had snared the sea - George Sterling "Duandon"
Before his doom-bewildered eyes - George Sterling "Duandon"
Saw the sapphire fields of ocean blaze - George Sterling "Duandon"
The turquoise battlements of noon - George Sterling "Duandon"
As twilight mixed its purple - George Sterling "Duandon"
Sunset, like a golden blade - George Sterling "Duandon"
Grey as with oblivion - George Sterling "Duandon"
From crimson victories of war - George Sterling "Duandon"
One with the reaches of infinity - George Sterling "Duandon"
Altars of the buried sun made red - George Sterling "Duandon"
On waters, grey and lone - George Sterling "Duandon"
Gone like the shadow of a vanished cloud - George Sterling "Duandon"
From azure gulfs to dream - George Sterling "Duandon"
Thunder-chorded surf on yellow sands - George Sterling "Duandon"
Her beacon to a goal divine - George Sterling "Duty"
Face unfaltering the Wrath - George Sterling "Duty"
Anger in oil and stone - George Sterling "Earth Song"
Graven on tendon and bone - George Sterling "Earth Song"
Frontiers of flame and thunder - George Sterling "Earth's Anthem"
A victim of the curse of thought - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
Idle as any song of mine - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
Unmastered still by disbelief - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
On ancient roads of war - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
Be as a rope of sand - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
Where winds of sorrow blow - George Sterling "Evanescence"
The centuries that foster thee - George Sterling "The Evanescent"
Descendent from the starry throng - George Sterling "The Evanescent"
Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
With her dust upon the twilight winds - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
The mournful music of the years - George Sterling "The Fall of the Year"
Exile and a home withheld - George Sterling "The Fall of the Year"
On wizard roads of shadow - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
Our wingless gold of earth - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
Pan's hoofprints in the corn - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
With tinsel crowns put by - George Sterling "The Faun"
Too sad to watch the sky - George Sterling "The Faun"
In thy veins a scarlet venom - George Sterling "The Feast"
A famished star made desperate - George Sterling "Fire of Dreams"
That no memory can sweeten - George Sterling "The First Food"
Peace to thine unforgetting heart - George Sterling "The First Food"
Once mirror to the mountain - George Sterling "The First Born"
And strong to serve the Star - George Sterling "The Fleet"
The whitest beacon on the coasts of Time - George Sterling "The Fleet"
The sea alone hath speech - George Sterling "Forenoon by the Pacific"
And grey disposal of mine art - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
When the rain has washed the dark - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
Guardian and serf of that grey house - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
Who hath strange laughter - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Against the day of thy hope - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Thou takest to thee strange wine - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
And the dust as the stars that conceive - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
No truce with the day - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Their swords against the abyss - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
The dust is troubled for a season - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Where Love's white altars gleam - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
Rebuild the palace of the night - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
That sinks upon a lily's breast - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
No moon nor friendly stars attain - George Sterling "From the Gloom"
The sifted sunlight passed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
The azure blaze of scentless flowers - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
In living stars and blazoned bands - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
And forms in restless crimson dyed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
The lilies of the moon - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
Like a bead along the thread of light - George Sterling "The Glass of Time"
Shall find the feet of Change are fast - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
Where ashen gardens house the pilgrim sands - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
Alone with anguish and the dark - George Sterling "The Golden Past"
Through sealed, ungiven tears - George Sterling "Good-bye!"
With witness of a light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Take their symbol from the light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Based on heaven's blue - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
That crown his labor done - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
In solitude go free - George Sterling "The Gulls"
The hidden grace of vanished years - George Sterling "Harp-Song"
The only rapture worthy of the cost - George Sterling "Harp-Song"
When today is yesterday - George Sterling "Harp-Song"
Nor mix farewell with prayer - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"
What Time beheld so fair - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"
For now his soul has taken iron - George Sterling "Henri"
And on thy mouth lost roses - George Sterling "Hesperia"
With Heaven a golden mist beyond - George Sterling "Hesperia"
Her poppies dropped in flight - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Had gathered the night's last tear - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Girdled half of a world in gold - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Watched the golden reefs of sunset fade - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Heedless of Time and the jealous stars - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Where the wind ran grey - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Between the sapphire and the pines - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Took an ocean for its harp - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Have seen your scarlet over a setting sun - George Sterling "Hesperian"
A flower of elfin gold - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
When that flower of fear had broken - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
To pluck that flower of doom - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
Wardens of the far-sought gold - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
Beyond the grey and desolate Gate - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
Of all the tides of conquest - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
To us time's sea is strange - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
Veined with sullen gold - George Sterling "Hostage"
Another leaf from life's wild rose - George Sterling "Hostage"
With spirits of unnumbered rains - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
The hidden harp of memory - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Had mourned in Eden's evening - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Are half the music of the Past - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Of some black lily, still and venomous - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
An ivory poison, sweet and cold - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
The heart's high memories unaware - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Some garden built by sin - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
How marvelous the lure - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
With portent of a Golden Age - George Sterling "The House of War"
As eagles of destruction ride - George Sterling "The House of War"
In midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
Drown Orion in a silver swoon - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
Or quench their starry thirst - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
Hewn in midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
When the spirit's chains are rust - George Sterling "In a Thousand Years"
Where tears alone are fruit - George Sterling "In Autumn"
The harvest of annihilating years - George Sterling "The Inexorable Hour"
And danced on five dew drops - George Sterling "Insincerities"
To hold by faith a heart's untested gold - George Sterling "Intimation"
Their reefs of sunken gold - George Sterling "The Islands of the Blest"
From these Time steals no glory - George Sterling "The Joys Unchanging"
Heard the stars plot evil - George Sterling "Justice"
Grey as any rain - George Sterling "Justice"
A whisper touched the wind - George Sterling "Justice"
Woven with the shadows of my dream - George Sterling "The Killdee"
The hushed lips of Evening - George Sterling "The Killdee"
And watch our isolated sun decline - George Sterling "Kindred"
Twilight in unhesitating hands - George Sterling "Kindred"
To enchanted silence flows - George Sterling "The Kiss"
The salt and amber sand - George Sterling "The Lagoon"
What golden people call it home? - George Sterling "The Last Island"
Swept by winds that never blew before - George Sterling "The Last of Sunset"
That gave her heart to dust - George Sterling "A Legend of the Dove"
Float with unheeded fire - George Sterling "The Light-Giver"
Now content with memories - George Sterling "Lost Companion"
Hold the sorrows of the wind - George Sterling "Lost Companion"
From citadels of dream - George Sterling "Lost in Light"
The lost, unhappy rain - George Sterling "Lost Sunsets"
Saw wilder sunsets drown - George Sterling "Lost Sunsets"
Stand equal in their flame - George Sterling "Love's Mercy"
Have in quest the trusted light - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
Power, with encrimsoned hands - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
Absolve the future of its fears - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
Beside the ocean of the Past - George Sterling "Memory"
Trophies of tides invincible - George Sterling "Memory"
The portals of the ruined past - George Sterling "Memory of the Dead"
From the sapphire of infinity - George Sterling "The Meteor"
On paths that memory retraces - George Sterling "Mirage"
Hold me exile of their star - George Sterling "Mirage"
Had baffled Time and Fate - George Sterling "A Mood"
Ere the darkness could forget - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
That time would teach her dream - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
A wilder glory touched the wood - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
In realms now formless in the dust - George Sterling "A Morning Hymn"
Mutations of arrested light - George Sterling "Morning in the Pines"
With radiance of wings immortal - George Sterling "The Morning Star"
This audacious vision of the dust - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
When matter's chain shall rust - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
The undying kings, Silence and Death - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
The wind of lonely places - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Wander on the sands of doom - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Haunting yet the dusk of unforgotten days - George Sterling "Music"
That sorrow in the ocean's voice - George Sterling "Music"
Her chords of shadowy gold - George Sterling "Music"
And reveal the deep of stars - George Sterling "Music"
To the wounded viols pleading - George Sterling "Music at Dusk"
On the pathway of the sun - George Sterling "Music at Dusk"
Taken in the toils of Sleep - George Sterling "The Music of Sleep"
My heart is hungered fire - George Sterling "The New Goddess"
A worship of a grimmer kind - George Sterling "The New Kings"
Whose streets with tears are wet - George Sterling "The New State"
And haughty in their music - George Sterling "Night in Heaven"
Dreams of the abandoned nest - George Sterling "The Night Migration"
Below the migrant winter stars - George Sterling "The Night Migration"
Time's adoration of Eternity - George Sterling "The Night of Gods"
Of kingdoms past and gods undone - George Sterling "The Night of Gods"
Whose roots take hold on Hell - George Sterling "The Night of Man"
Alert and faithful in the night - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Whatever menace be - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Ablink like dragon-eyes - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Lamps in rooms of pain - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"
Until their memory be fled - George Sterling "The Nile"
The shaken stars of midnight stir - George Sterling "Nora May French"
In question at oblivion's brink - George Sterling "Norman Boyer"
With onyx pebbles and orange weed - George Sterling "North Wind"
The twilight of those sapphire stones - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"
Ashes of the sun-deserted gold - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"
Beheld that crimson billow soar - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"
The crimson gardens of the mourning air - George Sterling "October"
Gives Hope her haven - George Sterling "October"
Lonely voices at her heart - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"
With the stars in doubt - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"
The menace of that lethal time - George Sterling "Of America"
Weaves a coverlet of dust - George Sterling "Old Anchors"
Weary of the rainless sands - George Sterling "An Old Indian Remembers"
Recall the starlight in the tear - George Sterling "Old Partings"
In the storm's black universe - George Sterling "On Fifth Avenue"
Circe folded in the sunset's gold - George Sterling "The Pain of Beauty"
Follow with the sound of gold - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Their gold was the gold of earth - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
That sleep in the barrows of oblivion - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Whose gold is the gold of eternity - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Peace to the dust of the conquerors - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
The purple kingdoms of the old mirage - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
Brown and brittle falls the leaf - George Sterling "The Pathway"
Red and gold of sunset wines - George Sterling "The Pathway"
The tiger-haunted garden - George Sterling "Peace"
Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"
Considering the mystery of pain - George Sterling "Pride and Conscience"
My heart is sister of ice - George Sterling "The Princess on the Headland"
A better excuse for the song - George Sterling "The Quarrel"
And like a lily broke - George Sterling "The Rack"
Far below the crimson star - George Sterling "The Rack"
A rose of sorrow and change - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"
Turn my gaze to the dawn - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"
Gold is on the heart's horizon - George Sterling "Reborn"
Sorrow's star, forlornly cold - George Sterling "Reborn"
Hunger in the perished years - George Sterling "Reborn"
And sudden starlight in remembering tears - George Sterling "Reincarnation"
The twilight tells not which - George Sterling "Remorse"
With clamors frozen at his heart - George Sterling "Remorse"
Above the rising sea of human tears - George Sterling "Remorse"
Out of darkness and unhallowed years - George Sterling "Repentance"
Holds forever, like a shell - George Sterling "Respite"
Silence has half her will - George Sterling "Respite"
With tyrant dreams that startle - George Sterling "Resurrection"
And hunger for departed hours - George Sterling "Revelation"
May teach a thousand things unsaid - George Sterling "Revelation"
Standing on the dust of kings - George Sterling "Romance"
They sow a bitter grain - George Sterling "Safe"
And webs as white as milk - George Sterling "Sails"
The lonely chalice of your peace - George Sterling "Sanctuary"
Where midnight merges to infinity - George Sterling "Shelley at Spezia"
Of that wan orchid of despair - George Sterling "The Sibyl of Dreams"
By hesitating spirits of the wind - George Sterling "The Sibyl of Dreams"
Burden the winds with thunder - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Across the tumult wake the Past - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Of harps reborn from legend's dust - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Move with phantoms unbegot - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
The tides of Time in travail - George Sterling "The Spirit of Beauty"
Splendors of the lapsing sun - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"
The grey wings of fleeting Twilight - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"
The sullen emerald of the pines - George Sterling "Spring in Monterey"
Meet the question of the hours - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
The sapphire walls of noon forbid - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
As love by silence hid - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Whom all the swords of sunset bar - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Reach past the departed sun - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
The seas of shadow call - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Tender as sleep to old regret - George Sterling "The Strange Bird"
The shadow of the wings of Time - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
In that undying garden of the years - George Sterling "Sweet Poesy, She Liveth"
And scarves of rustling foam - George Sterling "The Swimmers"
Alien terrors and unknown surmise - George Sterling "The Swimmers"
The sea's immeasured lyre - George Sterling "The Swimmers"
The cities of accurst desire - George Sterling "The Swoon"
Clinging fire from Heaven's arsenal - George Sterling "The Swoon"
Had numbered all the nerves of pain - George Sterling "The Swoon"
An echo in the abysses of the heart - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The swift fulfilment of all dreams - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Torn from the clasping day - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
A wandering echo in the night of Change - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The ghost of something futile and forgot - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The grief and music of forgotten lives - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
As dust that gathered to a rose - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The battle of contending skies - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
With what blood of wars divine - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Beyond Orion's dreadful sword of suns - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Reserves and urgencies of light - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
From insurgent deeps impelled - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Archival gloom, prophetic flame - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
And winds of the forgotten morn - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
The music of her age of gold - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Crowned upon the ashen sun - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Her transitory throne of fire - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
The Hydra's crimson heart - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
From the dark a dust of fire - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Where Life looks forth on Time - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
The throned infinity of law - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
A needle on the nerves of sight - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Or kindred mystery and hope - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Gone forth to Time's transmuting storms - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Whoso drinks her beauty's golden wine - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"
And scarlet trumpets pealing in the blood - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"
Rose like minarets of dream - George Sterling "Then and Now"
That clutched the deviating earth - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
Draining the bitter oceans - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
In the face of the offended sun - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
The dome of unremembered nights - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
A beacon on the cosmic deep - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
From the starlight and the surge - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
Each marvel would outgrow - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
Whose light is not in the refusing dawn - George Sterling "Thy Laughing Loveliness"
They that supped with War - George Sterling "Tidal, King of Nations"
Awake no winds but bear her dust - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
Echo of a music once supreme - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
The ghost of dawns forgotten - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
Your footfall on our star - George Sterling "To a Girl Dancing"
That should foil oblivion - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"
Endure the light which is the truth - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"
Time's whitest loves lie radiant - George Sterling "To Browning"
The harvests of her ancient rain - George Sterling "To Germany"
And bid the stars of morning sing - George Sterling "To Germany"
Time's sure and ancient treachery - George Sterling "To Ina Coolbrith"
Where Memory, with tireless sight - George Sterling "To Katherine"
The power of your deluding wine - George Sterling "To Life"
Where light and roses stir - George Sterling "To My Sister"
Are loyal to that alien light - George Sterling "To One Self-Slain"
The fleeting music scattered - George Sterling "To One Self-Slain"
Nor stand in flame beside me - George Sterling "To Pain"
Had touched the world to grey - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Once sighted over seas of blood - George Sterling "To the Goddess Liberty"
Time's purple deepens to oblivion - George Sterling "To the Moon"
Purchase me the freedoms of celestial sorcery - George Sterling "To the Moon (StC)"
Would lie on shattered roses - George Sterling "To Vera (5)"
The fields with hints of terror sown - George Sterling "To Vernon L. Kellogg"
Demanding the impossible for food - George Sterling "Two Met"
Thy voice in crystal echo - George Sterling "The Unalterable"
On fabled sands of gold - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
Ambers found in dream alone - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
A bubble lifting from enchanted light - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
Is bitter with our love's delay - George Sterling "Until Thou Comest"
Squander the year's unhoarded gold - George Sterling "Untitled Poem"
The truce of time and tears - George Sterling "Vigil"
Half its glowing temples fall to ash - George Sterling "A Visitor"
The rain's grey army passed - George Sterling "A Visitor"
The abiding secret of our tears - George Sterling "Visual Beauty"
A hunger for horizons - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"
Shall reap the years of peace - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"
The harvest of my proven gold - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"
To morning's throne of gold - George Sterling "The Voices"
That domain and interval of dream - George Sterling "War"
The challenge of contending suns - George Sterling "War's Music"
His priests in gold and scarlet - George Sterling "The War-Machine"
In what mine of amazement - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"
The metal Time's acid eats not - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"
The mystery hid in the flame - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"
And bind with ghostly light - George Sterling "White Magic"
As eastward woke a thorny star - George Sterling "White Magic"
Hath the Edens in her gift - George Sterling "White Magic"
Lost in a still, enchanted land - George Sterling "White Magic"
A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"
Her haunted heart forgets - George Sterling "White Magic"
Twilight music that regrets - George Sterling "White Magic"
Weaves it with a troubled wind - George Sterling "White Magic"
From the loom of suns that sink - George Sterling "White Magic"
The restless winds of thought - George Sterling "Willy Pitcher"
In nameless cities of the past - George Sterling "The Wind"
Beyond the sapphire miles - George Sterling "The Wind"
In which a sun was deathless - George Sterling "The Wine of Illusion"
Dead stars were strewn like sands - George Sterling "The Wine of Illusion"
Wherein a splendid poison burns - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
At fall of some disastrous night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Like a crimson throat to hell - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Lost in palaces of silence - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Orbs that graven monsters clasp - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Made equal in the dust - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Icy philters brim with scarlet foam - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Seeks the silence of a vaster night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
A crimson spider hidden in a skull - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Whose scarlet venom crawls - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Onyx waters stilled by gorgeous oils - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"
Untouched by crimson or by gold - George Sterling "A Winter Dawn"
Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Conscious of the thing foretold - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Passing from mirage to final dust - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
I am fire to the bold - George Sterling "Witch-Fire"
Before the sapphire altar of the sea - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"
One with the wine of night - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"
On heavens and hearts that dream - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
On custom's rust and Beauty's dust - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
By duty and the alchemy of tears - George Sterling "Yosemite"
A mist before Time's sun - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Iron litanies of worlds that die - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Where the feet of Time are slow - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Unaltered by the lightnings - George Sterling "Yosemite"
The compassion of their night - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Crystal voices lifted to thine ears - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Goes forth on scarlet thresholds - George Sterling "Yosemite"
The world's arisen shade - George Sterling "Yosemite"
A sudden flower blooms in my heart - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
And music all too poor - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
Whose is the blood in thy broken chalice? - George Sterling "You Never Can Tell"
And solitary oceans then unknown - George Sterling "Youth and Time"
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