Who is Bret Harte
Francis Brett Hart (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902), known as Bret Harte, was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.BiographyEarly life Harte was born in New York's capital city of Albany. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather, Francis Brett. When he was young...
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Bret Harte Poems
- What The Wolf Really Said To Little Red Riding-hood
Wondering maiden, so puzzled and fair,
Why dost thou murmur and ponder and stare?
“Why are my eyelids so open and wild?”
Only the better to see with, my child!... - What The Engines Said
Opening Of The Pacific Railroad
What was it the Engines said,... - What The Chimney Sang
Over the chimney the night-wind sang
And chanted a melody no one knew;
And the Woman stopped, as her babe she tossed,
And thought of the one she had long since lost,... - What Miss Edith Saw From Her Window
Our window's not much, though it fronts on the street;
There's a fly in the pane that gets nothin' to eat;
But it's curious how people think it's a treat
For ME to look out of the window!... - Twenty Years
Beg your pardon, old fellow! I think
I was dreaming just now when you spoke.
The fact is, the musical clink
Of the ice on your wine-goblet's brink...
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- Goldengate1: and the power is out on bret harte ridge today....
- Lbcitylibrary: to meet long beach’s demand for libraries during the 1st half of the 20th century, lbpl opened library “stations” across the city. while temporary, some stations became lbpl branches, like the harte branch! check out our latest branch feature on harte:
- Elfenomenonenz: now, i hold it is not decent for a scientific gent to say another is an ass-at least, to all intent; nor should the individual who happens to be meant reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. ~ bret harte
- Belindagreb: "a bird in hand is a certainty. but a bird in the bush may sing." bret harte male red-winged blackbird latches on to reeds above the marsh by belinda greb
- Elizabethpaier: the outcasts of poker flat by bret harte
