Complete Poetical Works
by Bret Harte
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Chapters (128)
- COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
- POEMS
- I. NATIONAL
- JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG
- "HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?"
- BATTLE BUNNY
- THE REVEILLE
- OUR PRIVILEGE
- RELIEVING GUARD
- THE GODDESS
- ON A PEN OF THOMAS STARR KING
- A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY
- THE COPPERHEAD
- A SANITARY MESSAGE
- THE OLD MAJOR EXPLAINS
- CALIFORNIA'S GREETING TO SEWARD
- THE AGED STRANGER
- THE IDYL OF BATTLE HOLLOW
- CALDWELL OF SPRINGFIELD
- POEM
- MISS BLANCHE SAYS
- AN ARCTIC VISION
- ST. THOMAS
- OFF SCARBOROUGH
- CADET GREY
- II. SPANISH IDYLS AND LEGENDS
- THE MIRACLE OF PADRE JUNIPERO
- THE WONDERFUL SPRING OF SAN JOAQUIN
- THE ANGELUS
- CONCEPCION DE ARGUELLO
- "FOR THE KING"
- RAMON
- DON DIEGO OF THE SOUTH
- AT THE HACIENDA
- FRIAR PEDRO'S RIDE
- IN THE MISSION GARDEN
- THE LOST GALLEON*
- III. IN DIALECT
- "JIM"
- CHIQUITA
- DOW'S FLAT
- IN THE TUNNEL
- "CICELY"
- PENELOPE
- PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES
- THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS
- LUKE
- "THE BABES IN THE WOODS"
- THE LATEST CHINESE OUTRAGE
- TRUTHFUL JAMES TO THE EDITOR
- AN IDYL OF THE ROAD
- THOMPSON OF ANGELS
- THE HAWK'S NEST
- HER LETTER
- HIS ANSWER TO "HER LETTER"
- "THE RETURN OF BELISARIUS"
- FURTHER LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES
- AFTER THE ACCIDENT
- THE GHOST THAT JIM SAW
- "SEVENTY-NINE"
- THE STAGE-DRIVER'S STORY
- A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE
- THE THOUGHT-READER OF ANGELS
- THE SPELLING BEE AT ANGELS
- ARTEMIS IN SIERRA
- JACK OF THE TULES
- IV. MISCELLANEOUS
- A GREYPORT LEGEND
- A NEWPORT ROMANCE
- SAN FRANCISCO
- THE MOUNTAIN HEART'S-EASE
- GRIZZLY.
- MADRONO
- COYOTE
- TO A SEA-BIRD
- WHAT THE CHIMNEY SANG
- DICKENS IN CAMP
- "TWENTY YEARS"
- FATE
- GRANDMOTHER TENTERDEN
- GUILD'S SIGNAL
- ASPIRING MISS DE LAINE
- A LEGEND OF COLOGNE
- THE TALE OF A PONY
- ON A CONE OF THE BIG TREES
- LONE MOUNTAIN
- ALNASCHAR
- THE TWO SHIPS
- ADDRESS
- DOLLY VARDEN
- TELEMACHUS VERSUS MENTOR
- WHAT THE WOLF REALLY SAID TO LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD
- HALF AN HOUR BEFORE SUPPER
- WHAT THE BULLET SANG
- THE OLD CAMP-FIRE
- THE STATION-MASTER OF LONE PRAIRIE
- THE MISSION BELLS OF MONTEREY
- "CROTALUS"
- ON WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT
- THE BIRDS OF CIRENCESTER
- LINES TO A PORTRAIT, BY A SUPERIOR PERSON
- HER LAST LETTER
- V. PARODIES
- BEFORE THE CURTAIN
- TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL*
- THE BALLAD OF MR. COOKE
- THE BALLAD OF THE EMEU
- MRS. JUDGE JENKINS
- A GEOLOGICAL MADRIGAL
- AVITOR
- THE WILLOWS
- NORTH BEACH
- THE LOST TAILS OF MILETUS
- THE RITUALIST
- A MORAL VINDICATOR
- CALIFORNIA MADRIGAL
- WHAT THE ENGINES SAID
- THE LEGENDS OF THE RHINE
- SONGS WITHOUT SENSE
- FOR THE PARLOR AND PIANO
- MASTER JOHNNY'S NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR
- MISS EDITH'S MODEST REQUEST
- MISS EDITH MAKES IT PLEASANT FOR BROTHER JACK
- MISS EDITH MAKES ANOTHER FRIEND
- WHAT MISS EDITH SAW FROM HER WINDOW
- ON THE LANDING
- NOTES
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