CONTENTS

DUANDON

THREE SONNETS OF THE NIGHT SKIES I ALDEBARAN AT DUSK

II THE CHARIOTS OF DAWN

III THE HUNTRESS OF STARS

THE EVANESCENT

MEMORY

THE MOTH OF TIME

THE BLACK VULTURE

THE HOUSE OF ORCHIDS Dedicated to Mrs. Joseph B. Coryell

SONNETS ON THE SEA'S VOICE I

AUTUMN

STARS OF THE NOON

THE APOTHECARY'S

THE SWIMMERS

BENEATH THE REDWOODS

MUSIC AT DUSK

THE TIDES OF CHANGE

MORNING TWILIGHT

AN ALTAR OF THE WEST (Point Lobos, the southern boundary of Carmel Bay.)

THE FAUN

THE VOICES

A CHARACTER

THE GUERDON OF THE SUN

THE GARDENS OF THE SEA

THE SIBYL OF DREAMS

THE MUSIC OF SLEEP

DUTY

THE ECHO AND THE QUEST

JUSTICE

THE FLEET

REMORSE

MOONLIGHT IN THE PINES

AT THE GRAVE OF SERRA

WHITE MAGIC

THREE SONNETS BY THE NIGHT SEA I Surely the dome of

AFTER THE STORM

THE HARLOT'S WAKENING

THE MIDGES

TO AMBROSE BIERCE

TO HALL B. RAND

TO VERNON L. KELLOGG

CHARLES WARREN STODDARD

THE ASHES IN THE SEA N. M. F.

THE FORTY-THIRD CHAPTER OF JOB

THE HOUSE OF ORCHIDS
AND OTHER POEMS

THE HOUSE OF ORCHIDS
AND OTHER POEMS

BY
GEORGE STERLING
Author of “The Testimony of the Suns”
and “A Wine of Wizardry”

A. M. ROBERTSON
SAN FRANCISCO
1911


COPYRIGHT
1911
BY GEORGE STERLING

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The Stanley-Taylor Company
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TO MY WIFE