Beyond the Breakers and other Poems
George Sterling
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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) (2 hr 18 min)
Chapters
| Beyond the Breakers | 6:32 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Master Mariner | 2:16 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Voice of the Dove | 1:19 | Read by Anthony Will |
| Night Sentries | 4:26 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Muse of the Incommunicable | 1:06 | Read by Anthony Will |
| The Coming Sìnger | 1:27 | Read by nighthawks |
| At the Grand Canyon | 1:25 | Read by nighthawks |
| Nightfall | 1:04 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning | 11:34 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Afterward | 1:22 | Read by nighthawks |
| "Tidal, King of Nations" | 5:02 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Last Monster | 2:03 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
| Christmas under Arms | 3:14 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| War | 4:03 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Ascension | 1:26 | Read by nighthawks |
| The Thirst of Satan | 0:59 | Read by Arnav Darnal |
| Scrutiny | 1:06 | Read by Hallow Orbiter |
| Ballad of Two Seas | 3:47 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Ballad of St. John of Nepomuk | 3:28 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Rack | 4:16 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
| Willy Pitcher | 1:09 | Read by EHubbard |
| "Beyond the Sunset" | 5:05 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Respite | 1:25 | Read by nighthawks |
| Kindred | 1:24 | Read by nighthawks |
| "That Walk in Darkness" | 1:26 | Read by nighthawks |
| In the Market Place | 3:16 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Palette | 2:05 | Read by nighthawks |
| The Hunting of Dian | 3:58 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| A Winter Dawn | 1:09 | Read by David Lawrence |
| A Winter Sunset | 1:00 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Forenoon by the Pacific | 1:09 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| A Legend of the Dove | 1:45 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Said the Wind | 2:09 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Mission Swallows | 1:45 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| "Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium" | 2:29 | Read by Arnav Darnal |
| "On the Western Beach" | 1:51 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Then and Now | 2:38 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Menace | 2:46 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| The Secret Room | 1:15 | Read by John McAllister |
| Past the Panes | 1:22 | Read by John McAllister |
| From the Mountain | 1:15 | Read by John McAllister |
| Discord | 1:29 | Read by James Kruk |
| Lineage | 1:07 | Read by icepopsicle |
| To One Self-Slain | 1:20 | Read by nighthawks |
| Night on the Mountain | 1:06 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| The Abandoned Farm | 2:36 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| To H. G. Wells | 1:59 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| "Caeli Enarrant" | 2:34 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| "You Never Can Tell" | 1:09 | Read by grass |
| Dawn from a Western Mountain | 2:00 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Setting | 1:31 | Read by nighthawks |
| The Sleepers | 1:17 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| The Sleep of Birds | 1:32 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| Spring in Monterey | 2:06 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Last Days | 1:38 | Read by Hallow Orbiter |
| NATURAL HISTORY ITEMS: Father Coyote | 2:35 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Lagoon | 1:42 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| Relativity | 1:12 | Read by Penny Carrington |
| The Plaint of the Cottontails | 2:33 | Read by nighthawks |
| A Possibility | 2:25 | Read by John McAllister |