The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems

by Frances Fuller Victor

The poems embraced in the collection, have been written at all periods of my life, and therefore cannot be called peculiarly Western. But they embody feelings and emotions common to all hearts, East or West; and as such, I dedicate them to my friends on the Pacific Coast, but most especially in Oregon.

Portland, August, 1877.

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CONTENTS.

STORIES.

• Page
• [ The New Penelope]9
• [ A Curious Interview]80
• [ Mr. Ela's Story]96
• [ On the Sands]112
• [ An Old Fool]132
• [ How Jack Hastings Sold His Mine]180
• [ What They Told Me at Wilson's Bar]197
• [ Miss Jorgensen]212
• [ Sam Rice's Romance]231
• [ El Tesoro]247

POEMS.

• [ A Pagan Reverie]269
• [ Passing by Helicon]272
• [ Lost at Sea]275
• [ 'Twas June, Not I]276
• [ Lines to a Lump of Virgin Gold]281
• [ Magdalena]284
• [ Repose]289
• [ Aspasia]291
• [ A Reprimand]296
• [ To Mrs. ——]297
• [ Moonlight Memories]299
• [ Verses for M——]301
• [ Autumnalia]303
• [ Palo Santo]305
• [ A Summer Day]306
• [ He and She]308
• [ O Wild November Wind]308
• [ By the Sea]309
• [ Polk County Hills]310
• [ Waiting]312
• [ Palma]314
• [ Making Moan]316
• [ Childhood]317
• [ A Little Bird that Every One Knows]318
• [ Wayward Love]319
• [ A Lyric of Life]320
• [ From an Unpublished Poem]321
• [ Nevada]324
• [ The Vine]326
• [ What the Sea Said to Me]327
• [ Hymn]328
• [ Do You Hear the Women Praying?]329
• [ Our Life is Twofold]331
• [ Souvenir]334
• [ I Only Wished to Know]335
• [ Lines Written in an Album]335
• [ Love's Footsteps]336
• [ The Poet's Ministers]336
• [ Sunset at the Mouth of the Columbia]340
• [ The Passing of the Year]342

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STORIES.