Beyond the Breakers and other Poems
George Sterling
60 chapters · 2 h 18 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, Anthony Will, nighthawks, Phil Schempf, Stefan Von Blon, Larry Wilson and others
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George Sterling was born on Long Island, New York but spent most of his life in California where he had a successful career in business and finance. In later years he settled in the small coastal community of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Sterling's poetry was strongly influenced by the natural environment of Northern California, which was still largely unspoilt in his day, and particularly by the proximity of the vast Pacific Ocean.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Chapters
1 Beyond the Breakers 7 min 2 The Master Mariner 2 min 3 The Voice of the Dove 1 min 4 Night Sentries 4 min 5 The Muse of the Incommunicable 1 min 6 The Coming Sìnger 1 min 7 At the Grand Canyon 1 min 8 Nightfall 1 min 9 Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning 12 min 10 Afterward 1 min 11 Tidal, King of Nations 5 min 12 The Last Monster 2 min 13 Christmas under Arms 3 min 14 War 4 min 15 Ascension 1 min 16 The Thirst of Satan 1 min 17 Scrutiny 1 min 18 Ballad of Two Seas 4 min 19 Ballad of St. John of Nepomuk 3 min 20 The Rack 4 min 21 Willy Pitcher 1 min 22 Beyond the Sunset 5 min 23 Respite 1 min 24 Kindred 1 min 25 That Walk in Darkness 1 min 26 In the Market Place 3 min 27 The Palette 2 min 28 The Hunting of Dian 4 min 29 A Winter Dawn 1 min 30 A Winter Sunset 1 min 31 Forenoon by the Pacific 1 min 32 A Legend of the Dove 2 min 33 Said the Wind 2 min 34 The Mission Swallows 2 min 35 Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium 2 min 36 On the Western Beach 2 min 37 Then and Now 3 min 38 Menace 3 min 39 The Secret Room 1 min 40 Past the Panes 1 min 41 From the Mountain 1 min 42 Discord 1 min 43 Lineage 1 min 44 To One Self-Slain 1 min 45 Night on the Mountain 1 min 46 The Abandoned Farm 3 min 47 To H. G. Wells 2 min 48 Caeli Enarrant 3 min 49 You Never Can Tell 1 min 50 Dawn from a Western Mountain 2 min 51 The Setting 2 min 52 The Sleepers 1 min 53 The Sleep of Birds 2 min 54 Spring in Monterey 2 min 55 The Last Days 2 min 56 NATURAL HISTORY ITEMS: Father Coyote 3 min 57 The Lagoon 2 min 58 Relativity 1 min 59 The Plaint of the Cottontails 3 min 60 A Possibility 2 min