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    East and West
    East and West
    East and West
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    East and West

    By Bret Harte

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    Short collection of poetry. According to Wikipedia: "Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[2] – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. He was born in Albany, New York. ... He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coast town now known as Arcata, then just a mining camp on Humboldt Bay.His first literary efforts, including poetry and prose, appeared in The Californian, an early literary journal edited by Charles Henry Webb. In 1868 he became editor of The Overland Monthly, another new literary magazine, but this one more in tune with the pioneering spirit of excitement in California. His story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," appeared in the magazine's second edition, propelling Harte to nationwide fame... Determined to pursue his literary career, in 1871 he and his family traveled back East, to New York and eventually to Boston, where he contracted with the publisher of The Atlantic Monthly for an annual salary of $10,000, "an unprecedented sum at the time." His popularity waned, however, and by the end of 1872 he was without a publishing contract and increasingly desperate. He spent the next few years struggling to publish new work (or republish old), delivering lectures about the gold rush, and even selling an advertising jingle to a soap company. In 1878 Harte was appointed to the position of United States Consul in the town of Krefeld, Germany and then to Glasgow in 1880. In 1885 he settled in London. During the thirty years he spent in Europe, he never abandoned writing, and maintained a prodigious output of stories that retained the freshness of his earlier work. He died in England in 1902 of throat cancer and is buried at Frimley."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455387342
    East and West
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    Bret Harte

    Bret Harte (1836–1902) was an author and poet known for his romantic depictions of the American West and the California gold rush. Born in New York, Harte moved to California when he was seventeen and worked as a miner, messenger, and journalist. In 1868 he became editor of the Overland Monthly, a literary journal in which he published his most famous work, “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” In 1871 Harte returned east to further his writing career. He spent his later years as an American diplomat in Germany and Britain.

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      East and West - Bret Harte

      EAST AND WEST POEMS BY BRET HARTE

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Westerns by Bret Harte --

      Argonauts of North Liberty

      Bell-Ringer of Angel's

      By Shore and Sedge

      Clarence

      Colonel Starbottle's Client

      Cressy

      Crusade of the Exselsior

      Devil's Ford

      Dickens in Camp

      A Drift from Redwood Camp

      Drift from Two Shores

      East and West Poems

      A First Family of Tasajara

      Flip

      Found at Blazng Star

      From Sand Hill to Pine

      Frontier Storis

      The Heritage of Dadlow March

      In a Hollow of the Hills

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

      visit us at samizdat.com

      Part 1

      A Greyport Legend

      A Newport Romance

      The Hawk's Nest

      In the Mission Garden

      The Old Major Explains

      Seventy-Nine

      Truthful James's Answer to Her Letter

      Further Language from Truthful James

      The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin

      On a Cone of the Big Trees

      A Sanitary Message

      The Copperhead

      On a Pen of Thomas Starr King

      Lone Mountain

      California's Greeting to Seward

      The Two Ships

      The Goddess

      Address

      The Lost Galleon

      The Second Review of the Grand Army

      Part 2

      Before the Curtain

      The Stage-Driver's Story

      Aspiring Miss de Laine

      California Madrigal

      St. Thomas

      Ballad of Mr. Cooke

      Legends of the Rhine

      Mrs. Judge Jenkins: Sequel to Maud Muller

      Avitor

      A White Pine Ballad

      Little Red Riding-Hood

      The Ritualist

      A Moral Vindicator

      Songs without Sense

      Part 1

      A Greyport Legend.

      (1797.)

      They ran through the streets of the seaport town;

      They peered from the decks of the ships that lay:

      The cold sea-fog that came whitening down

      Was never as cold or white as they.

       "Ho, Starbuck and Pinckney and Tenterden!

        Run for your shallops, gather your men,

        Scatter your boats on the lower bay."

      Good cause for fear! In the thick midday

      The hulk that lay by the rotting pier,

      Filled with the children in happy play,

      Parted its moorings, and drifted clear,--

        Drifted clear beyond the reach or call,--

        Thirteen children they were in all,--

          All adrift in the lower bay!

      Said a hard-faced skipper, "God help us all!

      She will not float till the turning tide!"

      Said his wife, "My darling will hear _my_ call,

      Whether in sea or heaven she bide:"

        And she lifted a quavering voice and high,

        Wild and strange as a sea-bird's cry,

          Till they shuddered and wondered at her side.

      The fog drove down on each laboring crew,

      Veiled each from each and the sky and shore:

      There was not a sound but the breath they drew,

      And the lap of water and creak of oar;

        And they felt the breath of the downs, fresh blown

        O'er leagues of clover and cold gray stone,

          But not from the lips that had gone before.

      They come no more. But they tell the tale,

      That, when fogs are thick on the harbor reef,

      The mackerel fishers shorten sail;

      For the signal they know will bring relief:

        For the voices of children, still at play

        In a phantom hulk that drifts alway

          Through channels whose waters never fail.

      It is but a foolish shipman's tale,

      A theme for a poet's idle page;

      But still, when the mists of doubt prevail,

      And we lie becalmed by the shores of Age,

        We hear from the misty troubled shore

        The voice of the children gone before,

          Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

      A Newport Romance.

      They say that she died of a broken heart

        (I tell the tale as 'twas told to me);

      But her spirit lives, and her soul is part

        Of this sad old house by the sea.

      Her lover was fickle and fine and French:

        It was nearly a hundred years ago

      When he sailed away from her arms--poor wench--

        With the Admiral Rochambeau.

      I marvel much what periwigged phrase

        Won the heart of this sentimental Quaker,

      At what golden-laced speech of those modish days

        She listened--the mischief take her!

      But she kept the posies

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