San Francisco
Location, San FranciscoSan Francisco.
6.7
Immersed in golden shadows
At the close of a busy day,
Thy hills and vales St. Francis,
In peace and quiet lay.
Clothed in the folds of slumber,
Fair Morpheus reigned supreme
Unconscious of death and destruction
Thy portion…
To San Francisco
Location, San FranciscoTo San Francisco.
39.5
O guardian of the nation's western gate!
Keeping your lookout on our destinies,
Where lles the mystic Orlent over seas,
The world beholds you torn and desolate;
O'erthrown as if through Nature's deadly hate,
Destroyed,…
It Happened at Once
Location, San FranciscoIt Happened at Once.
50.5
And then a bolt, a jolt, a chill,
And Mother Earth seemed as afraid:
Then instant all again was still,
Save that my cattle from the shade
Where they had sought firm, rooted clay,
Came forth loud lowing, glad and…
The Lesson
Location, San FranciscoThe Lesson.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
9.1
When Thought, accustomed to appalling fact,
Grow normal and regains its sway once more,
Long buried Truth, within the hearts of men,
Shall rise and roll away the Stone of self,
And stand revealed in all its…
San Francisco’s fate
Location, San FranciscoSan Francisco's Fate.
24.3
With the wreck of her shattered glory,
Desolate, dire, complete;
With her landmarks grim and hoary
Strewn at her bleeding feet;
With the golden fruits of doing
Undone in a single day;
With the madden'd fates…
Beside the Golden Gate
Location, San FranciscoBeside the Golden Gate.
24.2
Author: Robert McIntyre
I.
That fateful day the sea did take
His silver trumpet up to wake
The Mistress of the Keys,
His beauteous bride.
who sleeping lay
Beside the door that guards the bay.
Amid…
The Watchword
Location, San FranciscoThe Watchword.
John Kendrick Bangs
23.2
Give of your mass of gold,
Send to the prostrate West
Some of that wealth untold
Digged from her virgin breast.
Give!
Give of your meager store,
Send from your cupboard bare
Out to…
Good-bye to Chinatown
Location, San FranciscoGood-Bye Chinatown.
6.1
Oh! where are the smells of Chinatown
That punctured the sait sea air,
And the steep lod street and the sandal'd Dot's Feet!
And the Nolpe? fend in his lair?
Oh! where are the lanterns that swung anout,
With their dragons…
San Francisco
Location, San FranciscoSan Francisco.
6.3
Earth trmbled like a wounded bird on wing;
Dark, hushed and still was everything,
Save those in horror of that hour, who heard again,
Earth laboring in her stress of pain,
Proud structures with granite walls and tower,
Crumbled…
San Francisco
Location, San FranciscoSan Francisco.
6.5
O stricken San Francisco, thou
Fair queen of all the West!
Thy ruined homes, thy bleeding hearts,
The ories of thy distress'd,
Fill all the land with sorrow,
We mourn, as one, thy fate,
The gay voice hushed, the form now…
The Aweful Bonanza
Location, San FranciscoThe Awful Bonanza.
32.4
The Friendly Club, which
hasn't missed a meeting since the
fire, held its monthly dinner in
Washington street restaurant on
the day the saloons opened-a
saloon, by the way, being part of
the restaurant. "We are…
Dr. Jorden
Location, San FranciscoDr. Jordan.
50.1
When Dr. Jordan left the realm
Of sciences called physical,
And took of prophecy the helm,
The public soon grew quizzical,
And wondered much to hear him talk
And see him make an earthquake walk.
He knows just where the…
The Same Old Cub
Location, San FranciscoThe Same Old Cub.
10.4
Oh, fair city of the Golden Gate, you whom I loved so well.
Brought out of Paradise into chaos to the very brinks of hell.
Ruin and desolation faced her on every hund,
And sadly the news, traveled throughout the broad…
Our City Beautiful
Location, San FranciscoOur City Beautiful.
9.3
Een tho' our hearts be steeped in tears
And, bent our souls by miery:
Een tho we look where once we loved-
That loved, now ashes at our feet,
Stifle, they cry-who dares to weep?
Raise up thine head and worship Goal!…
San Francisco Redeemed
Location, San FranciscoSan Francisco Redeemed.
6.6
Serenely proud has been thy reign,
Fair mistress of the Golden Gate,
NO Now through through they Great Baptismal Fire,
Predestined to a Great Estate.
Ambassadors from every clime
Have here their flags unfurled;…
San Francisco’s Promise
Location, San FranciscoSan Francisco's Promise.
40.2
Thy Past rolled up in smoke and cloud
And darkness of catastrophe:
Thy Future rises, strong and proud,
Through ashes of thine agony;
Still foams the brine upon thy breast
Where great ships gather to their…
Deathless
Location, San FranciscoDeathless.
By Lowel Otus Reese.
49.1
Thews of the dauntless Norman Knight, blood of the Saxon thane,
Eye of the hillman, cagle wise, scanning the far-off plain,
Mind of the gentle Puritan, stern in his single thought-
This was the blood…
The Major Breaks Into Rhyme
Location, San FranciscoThe Major Breaks Into Rhyme.
10.1
Not less stentorian than the
angry surf that beats the shore of,
Monterey Bay is the lyric defy
urled by Major McLaughlin, of
Santa Cruz and San Francisco,
at Wallace Irwin of New York.
Though of world-wide…
San Francisco
Location, San FranciscoSan Franciso.
39.4
She laughed upon her hills out there
Beside her bays of misty blue;
The gayest hearts, the sweetest air
That any city ever knew.
For I have whistled all the songs
That thrilled upon her care-free breath,
And I have…
A Toast
Location, San FranciscoA Toast.
6.2
I would drink a toast "New Frisco,"
Our beautiful city of godl;
The, health to her pretty maidens,
And health to her gallants bold.
Here's health to her patient mothers,
To her fathers old and gray;
Here's a quaff to our dear…