The Testimony of the Suns, and other Poems
George Sterling
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This is the first published volume of poetry by Californian author and poet George Sterling. These poems are the beginning of Sterling's great career as a poet, and include a number of poems in the style for which he would become famous. That style is dark and with supernatural elements, in the tradition of Thomas Hood and Edgar Allan Poe. - Summary by Carolin (1 hr 51 min)
Chapters
| Dedication to Ambrose Bierce | 4:33 | Read by Eva Davis (- 2025) |
| Memorial Day, 1901 | 8:37 | Read by Sonia |
| Poesy | 3:50 | Read by CJ Baars |
| The City of Music | 1:07 | Read by Eva Davis (- 2025) |
| To one Loved | 1:57 | Read by Eva Davis (- 2025) |
| The Summer of the Gods | 1:10 | Read by Eva Davis (- 2025) |
| The Lords of Pain | 1:03 | Read by Nemo |
| The Fog Siren | 1:25 | Read by Jude |
| To Miss Constance Crawley in 'Everyman' | 0:49 | Read by H.K. Virgil |
| To Imagination | 1:23 | Read by H.K. Virgil |
| To a Lily | 1:30 | Read by Caitlin Audra |
| 'With the Strength of Dreams' | 0:54 | Read by H.K. Virgil |
| The Testimony of the Suns | 31:44 | Read by Sonia |
| Music | 11:27 | Read by Eva Davis (- 2025) |
| A White Rose | 2:21 | Read by Nemo |
| The Soul's Exile | 1:30 | Read by Nemo |
| In the Beginning | 1:54 | Read by Nemo |
| Memory of the Dead | 1:04 | Read by Caitlin Audra |
| To my Wife | 1:00 | Read by Sonia |
| The Haunting | 1:15 | Read by Ian King |
| War | 1:15 | Read by Ian King |
| Nightmare | 1:13 | Read by Nemo |
| The Spirit of Beauty | 3:08 | Read by Sonia |
| To Katherine | 1:05 | Read by Sonia |
| Mystery | 0:57 | Read by Nemo |
| To my Sister | 2:49 | Read by Sonia |
| The Poets | 1:06 | Read by Sonia |
| Reincarnation | 1:17 | Read by Ian King |
| On Reading the Poems of Father Tabb | 0:43 | Read by Sonia |
| The Parting | 1:14 | Read by Sonia |
| Words for Lange's 'Blumenlied' | 0:50 | Read by Sonia |
| The Altar-Flame | 1:06 | Read by Sonia |
| To One Asking Lighter Songs | 1:19 | Read by Sonia |
| The Sea-Fog | 1:08 | Read by Sonia |
| The Nile | 1:04 | Read by Sonia |
| Darkness | 1:27 | Read by Sonia |
| The Ideal | 1:07 | Read by Sonia |
| To Colonel John S. Engs | 0:31 | Read by Sonia |
| 'Sad Sea-Horizons' | 1:52 | Read by Sonia |
| Evening | 1:11 | Read by Sonia |
| Ultima Thule | 1:28 | Read by Sonia |
| The Swoon | 1:05 | Read by Sonia |
| The City and the Silence | 1:07 | Read by Nemo |
| The Directory | 1:11 | Read by Sonia |