Transcriber’s Note. A list of contents is provided below for the convenience of the reader.
- [Author’s Preface]
- [The Sea of Fire]
- [The Rhyme of the Great River: Part I]
- [The Rhyme of the Great River: Part II]
SONGS
OF
THE MEXICAN SEAS
BY
JOAQUIN MILLER
AUTHOR OF “SONGS OF THE SIERRAS,” “SONGS OF ITALY,” ETC.
BOSTON
ROBERTS BROTHERS
1887
Copyright, 1887,
By Roberts Brothers.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
[Note.]—The lines in this little book, as in all my others, were written, or at least conceived, in the lands where the scenes are laid; so that whatever may be said of the imperfections of my work, I at least have the correct atmosphere and color. I have now and then sent forth from Mexico, and from remoter shores of the Gulf, fragments of these thoughts as they rounded into form, and some of them have been used at a Dartmouth College Commencement, and elsewhere; but as a whole the book is new.
From the heart of the Sierra, where I once more hear the awful heart-throbs of Nature, I now intrust the first reception of these lessons entirely to my own country. And may I not ask in return, now at the last, when the shadows begin to grow long, something of that consideration which, thus far, has been accorded almost entirely by strangers?