Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
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89
1901
English
- Dedication / Preface
- Grandeur
- Nature's Child
- To the Pines
- Reflections
- Life's Mystery
- The Fallen Tree
- There is an Air of Majesty
- Think Not That the Heart Is Devoid of Emotion
- Humanity's Stream
- Nature's Lullaby
- The Spirit of freedom is Born of the Mountains
- The Valley of the San Miguel
- To Mother Huberta
- Suggested by a Mountain Eagle
- The Silvery San Juan
- As the Shifting Sands of the Desert
- Missed
- If I Have Lived Before
- The Darker Side
- The Miner
- Life's Undercurrent
- They Cannot See the Wreaths We Place
- Mother—Alpha and Omega
- Empty are the Mother's Arms
- In Deo Fides
- Shall Love, as the Bridal Wreath, Whither and Die?
- Shall Our Memories Live When the Sod Rolls Above Us?
- A Reverie
- Love's Plea
- Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
- Despair
- Hidden Sorrows
- O, a Beautiful Thing Is the Flower That Fadeth!
- Smiles
- A Request
- Battle Hymn
- The Nations Peril
- Echoes from Galilee
- Go, And Sin No More
- Gently Lead Me, Star Divine
- Dying Hymn
- In Mortem Meditare
- Deprive This Strange and Complex World
- The Legend of St. Regimund
- As The Indian
- The Fragrant Perfume of the Flowers
- An Answer
- Fame
- The First Storm
- Thoughts
- From A Saxon Legend
- Christmas Chimes
- The Unknowable
- The Suicide
- I Think When I Stand in the Presence of Death
- Hope
- Metabole
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded literature, unless it should contain something in the nature of a deviation from beaten literary paths.
Whether the reading public will regard this as such or not is a question for the future to determine, as every book is a creature of circumstance, and at the date of its publication an algebraic unknown quantity.
It was not the original intention of the author to publish any of his effusions in collective form until more mature years and riper judgment should better qualify him for the task of composition, and should enable him to still further pursue the important studies of etymology, rhetoric, Latin and Greek, and complete the education which youthful environment denied.
On the 17th of March, A.D. 1900, occurred an accident in the form of a premature mining explosion which banished the light of the Colorado sun from his eyes forever, adding the almost insurmountable barrier of total and hopeless blindness to those of limited means and insufficient education. At first further effort seemed useless, but as time meliorates in some degree even the most deplorable and distressing physical conditions, ambition slowly rallied, and while lying for several months a patient in various hospitals in an ineffectual attempt to regain even partial sight, the following ideas and efforts of past years were gradually recalled from the recesses of memory, and reduced to their present form, in which, with no small hesitation and misgiving, they are presented to the consideration of the reading public, which in the humble opinion of the author has frequently failed to receive and appreciate productions of vastly superior merit." (Excerpt from the Preface)
Whether the reading public will regard this as such or not is a question for the future to determine, as every book is a creature of circumstance, and at the date of its publication an algebraic unknown quantity.
It was not the original intention of the author to publish any of his effusions in collective form until more mature years and riper judgment should better qualify him for the task of composition, and should enable him to still further pursue the important studies of etymology, rhetoric, Latin and Greek, and complete the education which youthful environment denied.
On the 17th of March, A.D. 1900, occurred an accident in the form of a premature mining explosion which banished the light of the Colorado sun from his eyes forever, adding the almost insurmountable barrier of total and hopeless blindness to those of limited means and insufficient education. At first further effort seemed useless, but as time meliorates in some degree even the most deplorable and distressing physical conditions, ambition slowly rallied, and while lying for several months a patient in various hospitals in an ineffectual attempt to regain even partial sight, the following ideas and efforts of past years were gradually recalled from the recesses of memory, and reduced to their present form, in which, with no small hesitation and misgiving, they are presented to the consideration of the reading public, which in the humble opinion of the author has frequently failed to receive and appreciate productions of vastly superior merit." (Excerpt from the Preface)
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