Phoenix Redivivus

Phoenix Redivivus By Theodor H Hittell 504 A light gleams o'er the Golden Gate; A pall of of smoke o'erspreads the sky; The burning city meets its fate; In smouldering heaps its ruins lie The morning comes; another light Far brighter than…

San Francisco

San Francisco 401 Fair mistress of the great blue sea Thy head is bent; Upon thy sea thou dost not smile, Thy heart is rent What of the night before the morn? Then were thine eyes The envy of the stars that looked From soul of skies What…

Deathless

Deathless By Lowel Otus Reese 491 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 of…

San Francisco’s Fate

San Francisco's Fate 243 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 pursuing- The…

It Happened At Once

It Happened at Once 505 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 San Francisco Earth-Quake

The San Francisco Earth-Quake 322 It was early in the morning On an April morning falr When a city fair and merciful Was quivering in the air There swaying to and fro Were buildings great and small; Then with a mighty crash Began a city's…

San Francisco

San Francisco 102 She sits upon her seven hills, All bare and blackened now, A mourning vell of sable smoke Obscures her stricken brow She weeps above her dead that lie Uncounted in the gloom With ashes for a winding-sheet And cinders…

The Sleeves Of Yesterday

The Sleeves of Yesterday 506 I wonder where the sleeves have flown That erstwhile hid milady's arms; The present show of flesh and bone Too oft reveals but doubtful charms A style the washerwomen set Is recognized as recherché- Dame…

The Major Breaks Into Rhyme

The Major Breaks Into Rhyme 101 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 Redeemed

San Francisco Redeemed 66 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;…

Pity The Poor Poet

Pity the Poor Poet 503 (As He Wrote It) Myrtilla's mouth is small and red, Her eyes are big and blue, The hair is golden on her head, Her skin is creamy hue (As Copled by a Northern Paper) Myrtilla's mouth is small and red, Her eyes…

The Same Old Cub

The Same Old Cub 104 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 land: Her…

The Lesson

The Lesson Ella Wheeler Wilcox 91 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…

The Need Of The Hour

The Need of the Hour 502 Now Molly scrubs the kitchen clean And fumigates the food, She germicides the soup tureen And also boils the wood; And ere she goes, at twilight cool, To do the milking now, She boils her hands, the milking stool,…

The Golden City

The Golden City 244 I Stricken she lies at her Western gate, Bleeding and bruised and desolate Queen of the beckoning West, now charred To a blackened heap and a smoulder- ing shard Where the waves of the peaceful Pa- cific…

San Francisco

San Francisco 321 How fair she looked! and calm, queen of the West! As though no auguish s'er could plerce her breast Tranguli and similing she in slumber luy At walking dawn upon that fatal day No rosente tinge yet graced the early morn:…

Cooking In The Street

Cooking In The Street 92 We passed through fire and earthquake, And close to famine's hungry jaws We're seen such rights in Frisco, As have made the whole world pause We,ve seen such sights in Frisco, Burned to ushes at our feet But for undiluted…

San Francisco

San Francisco 65 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 crushed, Beside…

A Rude Awakening

A Rude Awakening 507 They were talking of ages- A giddy, old beau, And a pretty, young maiden Of eighteen or so "I am scarcely too ancient For you, dear, am I?" He whispered her softly Through a plaintive sigh "Ah, the years are as nothing-"…

The City Beautiful

The City Beautiful 68 "Way down East" they have the ague Unity they, shake, shake, shake; But here in California We prefer an earthquake In some Stales they have the blizards, Cyclones disturb their rest; But out here in San Francisco We think…