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Beyond the Breakers and other Poems

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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) (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