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Bret Harte (Francis)

August 25, 1837 – May 6, 1902

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Poem Title	First Lines	Period	# Lines	# Reads
1: A Geological Madrigal	I have found out a gift for my fair;		32	673
2: A Greyport Legend	They ran through the streets of the seaport town,		42	453
3: A Legend of Cologne	Above the bones St. Ursula owns,		276	627
4: A Moral Vindicator	If Mr. Jones, Lycurgus B., Had one peculiar quality,		36	627
5: A Newport Romance	They say that she died of a broken heart		76	462
6: A Question of Privilege	It was Andrew Jackson Sutter who, despising Mr. Cutter for remarks he heard him utter in debate upon the floor,		18	612
7: A Sanitary Message	Last night, above the whistling wind,		40	773
8: A Second Review of the Grand Army	I read last night of the grand review		73	461
9: Address - The Opening of the California Theatre, San Francisco, January 19, 1870	Brief words, when actions wait, are well:		53	743
10: After the Accident	What I want is my husband, sir,		44	647
11: Alnaschar	Here’s yer toy balloons! All sizes!		47	736
12: An Arctic Vision	Where the short-legged Esquimaux		81	754
13: An Idyl of the Road	Look how the upland plunges into cover,		60	711
14: Artemis in Sierra	Halt! Here we are. Now wheel your mare a trifle		81	490
15: Aspiring Miss De Laine	Certain facts which serve to explain		182	453
16: At the Hacienda	Know I not whom thou mayst be		17	701
17: Avitor	What was it filled my youthful dreams,		40	652
18: Battle Bunny	Bunny, lying in the grass, Saw the shining column pass;		59	444
19: Before the Curtain	Behind the footlights hangs the rusty baize,		15	622
20: Cadet Grey	Act first, scene first. A study. Of a kind		490	697
21: Caldwell of Springfield	Here’s the spot. Look around you. Above on the height		35	681
22: California Madrigal	Oh, come, my beloved, from thy winter abode,		24	449
23: California’s Greeting to Seward	We know him well: no need of praise	1869	32	679
24: Chiquita	Beautiful! Sir, you may say so. Thar isn’t her match in the county;		32	618
25: Cicely	Cicely says you’re a poet; maybe, I ain’t much on rhyme:		56	615
26: Concepcion de Arguello	Looking seaward, o’er the sand-hills stands the fortress, old and quaint,		94	617
27: Coyote	Blown out of the prairie in twilight and dew,		16	477
28: Crotalus	No life in earth, or air, or sky;		48	634
29: Dickens in Camp	Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,		40	452
30: Dolly Varden	Dear Dolly! who does not recall		56	618
31: Don Diego of the South	Good! said the Padre, believe me still,		98	617
32: Dow’s Flat	Dow’s flat. That’s its name; And I reckon that you	1856	75	621
33: Fate	The sky is clouded, the rocks are bare,		12	503
34: For the King	As you look from the plaza at Leon west		174	715
35: Friar Pedro’s Ride	It was the morning season of the year;		160	710
36: Further Language from Truthful James	Do I sleep? do I dream? Do I wonder and doubt?		66	622
37: Grandmother Tenterden	I mind it was but yesterday:		75	429
38: Grizzly	Coward, of heroic size,		30	445
39: Guild’s Signal	Two low whistles, quaint and clear:		40	452
40: Half an Hour Before Supper	So she’s here, your unknown Dulcinea, the lady you met on the train,		28	717
41: Her Last Letter	June 4th! Do you know what that date means?		121	681
42: Her Letter	I’m sitting alone by the fire,		80	632
43: His Answer to “Her Letter”	Being asked by an intimate party,		72	639
44: How are You, Sanitary?	Down the picket-guarded lane		32	408
45: In the Mission Garden	I speak not the English well, but Pachita,	1865	50	688
46: In the Tunnel	Didn’t know Flynn, Flynn of Virginia,		46	682
47: Jack of the Tules	Shrewdly you question, Senor, and I fancy		64	486
48: Jim	Say there! P’r’aps Some on you chaps		58	707
49: John Burns of Gettysburg	Have you heard the story that gossips tell		111	424
50: Lines to a Portrait, by a Superior Person	When I bought you for a song,		56	695
51: Lone Mountain	This is that hill of awe That Persian Sindbad saw,		24	711
52: Luke	Wot’s that you’re readin’? a novel? A novel! well, darn my skin!		68	702
53: Madrono	Captain of the Western wood,		28	453
54: Master Johnny’s Next-Door Neighbor	It was spring the first time that I saw her, for her papa and mamma moved in		32	442
55: Miss Blanche Says	And you are the poet, and so you want		100	721
56: Miss Edith Makes Another Friend	Oh, you’re the girl lives on the corner? Come in if you want to come quick!		24	502
57: Miss Edith Makes It Pleasant for Brother Jack	Crying!” Of course I am crying, and I guess you would be crying, too,		24	507
58: Miss Edith’s Modest Request	My papa knows you, and he says you’re a man who makes reading for books;		44	481
59: Mrs. Judge Jenkins	Maud Muller all that summer day		48	623
60: North Beach	Lo! where the castle of bold Pfeiffer throws		26	601
61: Off Scarborough	Have a care!” the bailiffs cried		100	624
62: On a Cone of the Big Trees	Brown foundling of the Western wood,		56	615
63: On a Pen of Thomas Starr King	This is the reed the dead musician dropped,		20	451
64: On the Landing	DO you know why they’ve put us in that back room,		42	510
65: On William Francis Bartlett	O poor Romancer thou whose printed page,		40	648
66: Our Privilege	Not ours, where battle smoke upcurls,		24	408
67: Penelope	So you’ve kem ’yer agen, And one answer won’t do?		25	623
68: Plain Language from Truthful James	Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain,		60	643
69: Poem	We meet in peace, though from our native East		82	637
70: Ramon	Drunk and senseless in his place,		67	635
71: Relieving Guard	Came the relief. “What, sentry, ho!		12	426
72: San Francisco	Serene, indifferent of Fate,		40	445
73: Sarah Walker	It was very hot. Not a breath of air was stirring throughout the western wing		84	513
74: Seventy-Nine	Know me next time when you see me, won’t you, old smarty?		44	608
75: Songs Without Sense	Affection’s charm no longer gilds		49	448
76: St. Thomas	Very fair and full of promise		58	622
77: Telemachus versus Mentor	Don’t mind me, I beg you, old fellow, I’ll do very well here alone;		48	595
78: The Aged Stranger	I was with Grant” the stranger said;		32	608
79: The Angelus	Bells of the Past, whose long-forgotten music		32	610
80: The Babes in the Woods	Something characteristic,” eh?		72	584
81: The Ballad of Mr. Cooke	Where the sturdy ocean breeze		120	592
82: The Ballad of the Emeu	Oh, say, have you seen at the Willows so green		48	664
83: The Birds of Cirencester	Did I ever tell you, my dears, the way		91	678
84: The Copperhead	There is peace in the swamp where the Copperhead sleeps,	1864	24	617
85: The Ghost that Jim Saw	Why, as to that, said the engineer,		56	611
86: The Goddess	Who comes?” The sentry’s warning cry		44	403
87: The Hawk’s Nest	We checked our pace, the red road sharply rounding;		48	629
88: The Heathen Chinee	Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain,	1870	60	597
89: The Idyl of Battle Hollow	No, I won’t, thar, now, so! And it ain’t nothin’, no!		48	615
90: The Latest Chinese Outrage	It was noon by the sun; we had finished our game,		112	639
91: The Legends of the Rhine	Beetling walls with ivy grown,		52	437
92: The Lost Galleon	In sixteen hundred and forty-one,		178	610
93: The Lost Tails of Miletus	High on the Thracian hills, half hid in the billows of clover,		16	596
94: The Miracle of Padre Junipero	This is the tale that the Chronicle		84	695
95: The Mission Bells of Monterey	O bells that rang, O bells that sang		21	691
96: The Mountain Heart’s-Ease	By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting,		28	444
97: The Old Camp-Fire	Now shift the blanket pad before your saddle back you fling,		60	723
98: The Old Major Explains	Well, you see, the fact is, Colonel, I don’t know as I can come:		28	716
99: The Return of Belisarius	So you’re back from your travels, old fellow,		40	621
100: The Reveille	Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands,		35	433
101: The Ritualist	He wore, I think, a chasuble, the day when first we met;		16	599
102: The Society Upon the Stanislaus	I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;		36	709
103: The Spelling Bee at Angels	Waltz in, waltz in, ye little kids, and gather round my knee,		84	442
104: The Stage-Driver’s Story	It was the stage-driver’s story, as he stood with his back to the wheelers,		40	638
105: The Station-Master of Lone Prairie	An empty bench, a sky of grayest etching,		60	699
106: The Tale of a Pony	Name of my heroine, simply “Rose;”		105	582
107: The Thought-Reader of Angels	We hev tumbled ez dust Or ez worms of the yearth;		65	601
108: The Two Ships	As I stand by the cross on the lone mountain’s crest,		16	733
109: The Willows	The skies they were ashen and sober,		81	617
110: The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin	Of all the fountains that poets sing,		103	691
111: Thompson of Angels	It is the story of Thompson of Thompson, the hero of Angels.		44	687
112: To a Sea-Bird	Sauntering hither on listless wings,		20	426
113: To the Pliocene Skull	Speak, O man, less recent! Fragmentary fossil!		48	662
114: Truthful James to the Editor	Which it is not my style		50	644
115: Twenty Years	Beg your pardon, old fellow! I think		30	434
116: What Miss Edith Saw from Her Window	Our window’s not much, though it fronts on the street;		56	521
117: What the Bullet Sang	O Joy of creation To be! O rapture to fly		24	593
118: What the Chimney Sang	Over the chimney the night-wind sang		24	457
119: What the Engines Said	What was it the Engines said,		57	451
120: What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding-Hood	Wondering maiden, so puzzled and fair,		18	624

About:
Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.

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