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Beyond the Breakers and other Poems

George Sterling (1869 - 1926)

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)

Genre(s): Lyric

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1795), american (58)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Beyond the Breakers Alan Mapstone
00:06:32
Play 02 The Master Mariner Alan Mapstone
00:02:16
Play 03 The Voice of the Dove Anthony Will
00:01:19
Play 04 Night Sentries Alan Mapstone
00:04:26
Play 05 The Muse of the Incommunicable Anthony Will
00:01:06
Play 06 The Coming Sìnger nighthawks
00:01:27
Play 07 At the Grand Canyon nighthawks
00:01:25
Play 08 Nightfall Phil Schempf
00:01:04
Play 09 Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning Alan Mapstone
00:11:34
Play 10 Afterward nighthawks
00:01:22
Play 11 "Tidal, King of Nations" Alan Mapstone
00:05:02
Play 12 The Last Monster Stefan Von Blon
00:02:03
Play 13 Christmas under Arms Larry Wilson
00:03:14
Play 14 War Alan Mapstone
00:04:03
Play 15 Ascension nighthawks
00:01:26
Play 16 The Thirst of Satan Arnav Darnal
00:00:59
Play 17 Scrutiny Hallow Orbiter
00:01:06
Play 18 Ballad of Two Seas Alan Mapstone
00:03:47
Play 19 Ballad of St. John of Nepomuk Alan Mapstone
00:03:28
Play 20 The Rack Stefan Von Blon
00:04:16
Play 21 Willy Pitcher EHubbard
00:01:09
Play 22 "Beyond the Sunset" Alan Mapstone
00:05:05
Play 23 Respite nighthawks
00:01:25
Play 24 Kindred nighthawks
00:01:24
Play 25 "That Walk in Darkness" nighthawks
00:01:26
Play 26 In the Market Place Alan Mapstone
00:03:16
Play 27 The Palette nighthawks
00:02:05
Play 28 The Hunting of Dian Alan Mapstone
00:03:58
Play 29 A Winter Dawn David Lawrence
00:01:09
Play 30 A Winter Sunset Larry Wilson
00:01:00
Play 31 Forenoon by the Pacific Larry Wilson
00:01:09
Play 32 A Legend of the Dove Alan Mapstone
00:01:45
Play 33 Said the Wind Larry Wilson
00:02:09
Play 34 The Mission Swallows Larry Wilson
00:01:45
Play 35 "Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium" Arnav Darnal
00:02:29
Play 36 "On the Western Beach" Bruce Kachuk
00:01:51
Play 37 Then and Now Bruce Kachuk
00:02:38
Play 38 Menace Bruce Kachuk
00:02:46
Play 39 The Secret Room John McAllister
00:01:15
Play 40 Past the Panes John McAllister
00:01:22
Play 41 From the Mountain John McAllister
00:01:15
Play 42 Discord James Kruk
00:01:29
Play 43 Lineage icepopsicle
00:01:07
Play 44 To One Self-Slain nighthawks
00:01:20
Play 45 Night on the Mountain Phil Schempf
00:01:06
Play 46 The Abandoned Farm Phil Schempf
00:02:36
Play 47 To H. G. Wells Alan Mapstone
00:01:59
Play 48 "Caeli Enarrant" Alan Mapstone
00:02:34
Play 49 "You Never Can Tell" grass
00:01:09
Play 50 Dawn from a Western Mountain Alan Mapstone
00:02:00
Play 51 The Setting nighthawks
00:01:31
Play 52 The Sleepers Phil Schempf
00:01:17
Play 53 The Sleep of Birds Phil Schempf
00:01:32
Play 54 Spring in Monterey Alan Mapstone
00:02:06
Play 55 The Last Days Hallow Orbiter
00:01:38
Play 56 NATURAL HISTORY ITEMS: Father Coyote Alan Mapstone
00:02:35
Play 57 The Lagoon Phil Schempf
00:01:42
Play 58 Relativity Penny Carrington
00:01:12
Play 59 The Plaint of the Cottontails nighthawks
00:02:33
Play 60 A Possibility John McAllister
00:02:25