Poems by Francis Bret Harte
How Are You Sanitary?
... Smooth-faced boys, and cries like these, ...
A Sanitary Message
... But, mingling with these sounds of strife, ...
Before the Curtain
... The song and jest, the dance and trifling play, ...
A Moral Vindicator
... He smiled,--a bitter smile to see,-- ...
The Copperhead (1864)
... Whether slave or proud planter, who braves that dull crest, ...
North Beach
... On her gay bonnet wears, and laugheth loud in glee! ...
The Ballad Of Mr. Cooke
... (LEGEND OF THE CLIFF HOUSE, SAN FRANCISCO) ...
Her Letter
... That my heart's somewhere there in the ditches, ...
To A Sea Bird (Santa Cruz 1869)
... The bar that thunders, the shale that rings,- ...
What The Bullet Sang
... Though its smoke shall hide the sun, ...
Jack Of The Tules
... whatever It please you to say, it becomes us, for Church sake, ...
The Wonderful Spring Of San Joaquin
... Was filled with the spicing of pine and bay ...
A Question Of Privilege
... pack--as--he just had played the--Jack--as--" (here Cutter's gun ...
The Willows
... But my thoughts they were palsied and sear,-- ...
At The Hacienda
... Tell to me the old, old story,-- ...