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Francis Bret Harte

I lived from 1839-1902. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

Francis Bret Harte was at various times a miner, a newspaperman, an author, a playwright (with Mark Twain) a poet, a diplomat.

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  • How Are You Sanitary?
    Down the picket-guarded lane
    Rolled the comfort-laden wain,
    34 lines
  • A Second Review Of The Grand Army
    I read last night of the Grand Review
        In Washington's chiefest avenue,—
    79 lines
  • Crotalus [Rattlesnake Bar, Sierras]
    No life in earth, or air, or sky;
    The sunbeams, broken silently,
    63 lines
  • San Francisco [ From The Sea]
    SERENE, indifferent of Fate,
    Thou sittest at the Western Gate;
    58 lines
  • The Angelus
    Bells of the Past, whose long-forgotten music
    Still fills the wide expanse,
    31 lines
  • Coyote
    Blown out of the prairie in twilight and dew,
    Half bold and half timid, yet lazy all through;
    17 lines
  • John Burns Of Gettysburg
    Have you heard the story that gossips tell
    Of Burns of Gettysburg?—No? Ah, well,
    116 lines
  • Grizzly
    Coward of heroic size,
    In whose lazy muscles lies
    30 lines
  • Madrono
    Captain of the Western wood,
    Thou that apest Robin Hood !
    28 lines
  • Excelsior
    The shades of night were falling fast,
    As through an Eastern village passed
    55 lines
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