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Readers do not need to know the full history of The Graphic before opening The Graphic - The Verse - Volume II (1910-1918). It brings together 282 entries, beginning with The Fairy Hour by Everett C. Maxwell, Crusoe, 1910 by Katharine Hartman, and Woman’s Lyric Club by R. C. M. The selection turns a large run of periodical material into something a reader can enter in an afternoon and return to over time. It is not meant to replace the journal’s history. Instead, it offers a clear doorway: representative writing, useful names, and enough context to connect each piece with the publication that first carried it.

The second volume begins in June 1910 and follows The Graphic to the end of its surviving run in 1918. By then the weekly had become a more settled institution in Los Angeles: a journal of critical comment as well as society, politics, theater, music, books, commerce, and civic life. Its poetry retained the mixed character established in the earlier years. Original lyrics stood beside reprints, comic verse, sentimental songs, topical epigrams, patriotic pieces, parodies, and anonymous material drawn from the newspaper exchange. The result is less a procession of isolated masterpieces than a record of how verse circulated through the daily imagination of a growing Western city. Caroline Reynolds is the central local poet of these years. In 1911 The Graphic devoted an admiring feature to the twenty-two-year-old Los Angeles writer, praising her imagery, emotional range, and technical ease. The quantity of her later…. The introduction, contents, and editorial notes are there to help, but the writing remains at the center. Readers can move straight through the book, follow a favorite author, or begin with a title that looks inviting. Each route reveals a slightly different anthology, which is one reason the volume can support both a quick first visit and a slower return.

The order offers its own route. Early entries establish the first group of voices; near the middle, ned sultanas, of bronze torsos, of by Anonymous changes the view; the closing stretch reaches “ ” by Captain Kidd, Jr. Reading in order reveals echoes between pieces, while browsing by title or author makes the book useful for quick discovery. Neither approach requires a scholarly guide. The anthology works best when a familiar name leads toward an unfamiliar one, or when a poem encountered by chance becomes the reason to explore another issue or another book.

Among the people represented are Everett C. Maxwell, Katharine Hartman, R. C. M, Pauline B. Barrington, Gertrude Darlow, Mina Deane Halsey, Laura Creighton, Clara M. Greening, Mina D. Halsey, and G. M. H, with 56 more contributors included elsewhere in the book. The catalog connects their work with Los Angeles literary culture, American poetry, Little magazines, California, Desert, and Sea and coast. These terms help with searching, but they do not set limits on what a reader may find. Brian Kim Stefans prepared the volume for Text/Tech Journals, with Los Angeles, California given as its place of publication. The aim is simple: bring scattered material together, identify it clearly, and let readers make their own connections.

A good first route is to read The Fairy Hour by Everett C. Maxwell, turn next to ned sultanas, of bronze torsos, of by Anonymous, and then try “ ” by Captain Kidd, Jr. From there, the contents and contributor list can guide a more personal path. Reader’s edition: 306 PDF pages. The digital reading edition uses a consistent page size and clear typography so that the material can be read on screen or downloaded without losing its order. Source scans used during preparation remain private and are not part of the public upload. What the reader receives is the finished editorial volume: a generous introduction to the journal, a useful reference, and an invitation to keep following the writers who appear in its pages.

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  • The Fairy Hour — Everett C. Maxwell [Contribution, p. 18]
  • Crusoe, 1910 — Katharine Hartman [Contribution, p. 20]
  • Woman’s Lyric Club — R. C. M [Contribution, p. 21]
  • A Query — Pauline B. Barrington [Contribution, p. 22]
  • Robert Burns — Gertrude Darlow [Contribution, p. 23]
  • My Prayer — Mina Deane Halsey [Contribution, p. 24]
  • When I Shall Say Good-Bye — Mina Deane Halsey [Contribution, p. 25]
  • Good Night — Katharine Hartman [Contribution, p. 26]
  • Virginia — Laura Creighton [Contribution, p. 27]
  • A Mood — Gertrude Darlow [Contribution, p. 28]
  • Restitution — Clara M. Greening [Contribution, p. 29]
  • Young America — Mina D. Halsey [Contribution, p. 30]
  • The Triumph — G. M. H [Contribution, p. 31]
  • Little Boy Soldier — Everett C. Maxwell [Contribution, p. 32]
  • My Nursery Hour — Everett Carroll Maxwell [Contribution, p. 33]
  • My West — Everett C. Maxwell [Contribution, p. 34]
  • June in California — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 35]
  • That Old-Fashioned Bucket — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 36]
  • Fame — W. W. Catlin [Contribution, p. 37]
  • Lest She Regret — Lilian Du Bois Wheeler [Contribution, p. 38]
  • The Connoisseur Speaks — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 40]
  • Ode to a Sea Maiden — C. H. Bretherton [Contribution, p. 41]
  • To Arms! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 43]
  • Indian Summer — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 46]
  • Sweet Books of Mine — Richard Le Gallienne [Contribution, p. 47]
  • In California: a Winter Garden — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 48]
  • January in California — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 49]
  • In California — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 50]
  • Inconstancy — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 51]
  • At Glen Alpine, Lake Tahoe — Garrett Newkirk [Contribution, p. 52]
  • Gray Mist — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 53]
  • Her Request — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 54]
  • Soul-Racked — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 55]
  • February in California — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 56]
  • Ballad of a Soul’s Reserve — Ernest McGaffey [Contribution, p. 57]
  • Gray Clouds — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 58]
  • Revery — James W. Foley [Contribution, p. 59]
  • Lament of March — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 60]
  • Love's Miracle — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 61]
  • Call of the Open Road — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 62]
  • The Way to Galilee — J. W. Foley [Contribution, p. 63]
  • In the City Park — Charles H. Meiers [Contribution, p. 64]
  • The Braggart, Man — J. W. Foley [Contribution, p. 65]
  • When the Robin Comes — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 66]
  • Homing Time — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 67]
  • Ashes-Of-Roses — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 68]
  • Spring-O’-The-Year — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 69]
  • At Gray Dusk — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 70]
  • My Homing-Doves — Madge Clover [Contribution, p. 71]
  • Women Who Walk Apart — Edith Daley ) [Contribution, p. 72]
  • The Gray Ghost — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 73]
  • The Master Singer — W. H. Anderson [Contribution, p. 74]
  • Unresponsive — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 75]
  • Three Quatrains — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 76]
  • Etching — Caroline Reynolds [Artwork, p. 77]
  • Rainbows — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 78]
  • “Rise” — Ernest McGaffey [Contribution, p. 79]
  • Love’s Litany — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 80]
  • Prisoners — Edith Daley [Contribution, p. 81]
  • Petition — Samuel Ellsworth Kiser [Contribution, p. 82]
  • Winds of the West — Robert V. Carr [Contribution, p. 83]
  • My Old Books — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 84]
  • Spirit of the Child — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 85]
  • Envoys — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 86]
  • In Paradise Walk — Herbert P. Horne [Contribution, p. 87]
  • Santa Barbara — Clarence Thomas Urmy [Contribution, p. 88]
  • The Laughalot Boy — Samuel Ellsworth Kiser [Contribution, p. 89]
  • After the Theater — Olive Percival [Contribution, p. 90]
  • At the Ruined Mission — Virginia Cleaver Bacon [Contribution, p. 91]
  • Yearnings — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 92]
  • Plucked Roses — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 93]
  • Afterward — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 94]
  • The Return — Katherine Elspeth Oliver [Contribution, p. 95]
  • Mystery — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 96]
  • My Garden — Everett Carroll Maxwell [Contribution, p. 97]
  • Attuned — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 98]
  • Gray Day — Madge Clover [Contribution, p. 99]
  • Two Songs — Virginia Cleaver Bacon [Contribution, p. 100]
  • Song — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 101]
  • Dream of Summer — John W. Wood [Contribution, p. 102]
  • Where Peace Abides — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 103]
  • One Desert Night — Madge Clover [Contribution, p. 104]
  • The Lessons — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 105]
  • Rondel — Willoughby Rodman [Contribution, p. 106]
  • Roses Are Dying — Paul Travers [Contribution, p. 107]
  • In a Los Angeles Garden — Olive Percival [Contribution, p. 108]
  • Her Prayer — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 109]
  • In What Vale? — Iola A. Williams [Contribution, p. 110]
  • Summer at Catalina — John W. Wood [Contribution, p. 111]
  • Pan Triumphant — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 112]
  • In Passing — Georgina A. Paget [Contribution, p. 113]
  • Old Pueblo Days — Ronald Mac Donald [Contribution, p. 114]
  • Whence and Whither — Grace Hibbard [Contribution, p. 115]
  • In the Redwood Canyons — Lillian H. Shuey [Contribution, p. 116]
  • Love’s Forgetfulness — Robert Bridges [Contribution, p. 117]
  • The Gnome Who Lives in a Tree — Everett Carroll Maxwell [Contribution, p. 118]
  • The Desert Hour-Glass — Everett Carroll Maxwell [Contribution, p. 119]
  • Tonality — Lucille Furniss [Contribution, p. 120]
  • Recompense — Everett Carroll Maxwell [Contribution, p. 121]
  • Futility — Lucille Furniss [Contribution, p. 122]
  • In a Restaurant — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 123]
  • White Chrysanthemum — Grace Hibbard [Contribution, p. 124]
  • California Violets — Grace Hibbard [Contribution, p. 125]
  • Wanderlust — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 126]
  • Madonna Mia — Ernest McGaffey [Contribution, p. 127]
  • Mariposa Lilies — Grace Hibbard [Contribution, p. 128]
  • Poetry — Ella Heath [Contribution, p. 129]
  • Unfettered — Mary Eh. Coleridge [Contribution, p. 130]
  • California Skies — Clarence Thomas Urmy [Contribution, p. 131]
  • After Omar Khayyam — W. J. Linton [Contribution, p. 132]
  • White Ashes — DORA G. McCHESNEY [Contribution, p. 133]
  • Unrest — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 134]
  • Diffidence — Gordon Bottomley [Contribution, p. 135]
  • Valentine — Jeannette Bliss Gillespy [Contribution, p. 136]
  • The Mother-Cry — Madge, Clover [Contribution, p. 137]
  • The Passing Years — Caroline Reynolds [Contribution, p. 138]
  • The Answered Call — James Main Dixon [Contribution, p. 139]
  • Her God — Francis Caroline Willey [Contribution, p. 140]
  • Spring Comes A-Calling — Ray Clarke Rosh [Contribution, p. 141]
  • At Sunset — Clarence Thomas Urmy [Contribution, p. 142]
  • Interference — Frances Caroline Willey [Contribution, p. 143]
  • The Question — Gertrude Darlow [Contribution, p. 144]
  • The Mother — Frances Caroline Willey [Contribution, p. 145]
  • Gay Spring Returns — Ray Clarke Rose [Contribution, p. 146]
  • In a Pergola — Clarence Thomas Urmy [Contribution, p. 147]
  • Her Barony — A “Romany” [Contribution, p. 148]
  • [There in the middle of the Ho] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 149]
  • Ruth Mitchell’s Fine Poem — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 150]
  • The tocsin, and the sudden trumpet calls! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 152]
  • There is something which I regret — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 153]
  • Captains and cut-throats, not a few — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 154]
  • It is a thing that I regret — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 155]
  • [I am revolving in my brain] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 156]
  • [Fold him in his country’s stars] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 157]
  • Enough! Thou art mine! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 158]
  • Soft odors arise! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 159]
  • There’s room and to spare! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 160]
  • Ready! Waiting for the call! — Ralph Coole [Contribution, p. 161]
  • At the gates of Panama — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 162]
  • [With us tonight is one on whom] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 163]
  • Than the free child of an untroubled mood — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 164]
  • ned sultanas, of bronze torsos, of — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 165]
  • [You see the tripping dame could find no favor] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 166]
  • And from over the sea comes the croon — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 167]
  • Ralph Coole — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 168]
  • [But in an evil moment came] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 169]
  • And planted the Redwood trees of old — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 170]
  • And of prim and proper gait — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 171]
  • [ters. (“ .] — Beasts and Super-Beasts Anonymous [Contribution, p. 172]
  • [I kept my purpose while you lived. Shall I] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 173]
  • [ P routs] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 174]
  • Deep in the meadows of the sky — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 175]
  • But I can’t pay the rent — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 176]
  • It has an elevated sys- — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 177]
  • At Golden Gate — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 178]
  • High up the cliffs and fall away — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 179]
  • In their misty, rainbow spray — W. H. Anderson [Contribution, p. 180]
  • Until throughout this California-land — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 181]
  • ek Ok kk Ok Ok — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 182]
  • But I’d rather not perish while you make your — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 183]
  • Of garments christened redingotes — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 184]
  • For the Plato read by sweet Jane Gray? — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 185]
  • [They say our books will disappear] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 186]
  • Rhyming Skit on Local Author — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 187]
  • enemies, a love — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 188]
  • Oh, I know not if thou be son- — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 189]
  • It is a heart-beat deep in the quiet hills — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 190]
  • Will just contain a lima bean — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 191]
  • The self-same sun that heard your morning prayer — W. H. Anderson [Contribution, p. 192]
  • pany! —— -—— .. S. T. C — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 193]
  • [Claude Duval was in Newgate thrown] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 194]
  • Higho, chivey, higno! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 195]
  • Of this draught—Life’s Tragedy! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 196]
  • And then, through their hearts. ] may hear and know — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 197]
  • But I cannot tell from where — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 198]
  • When sanity is gone — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 199]
  • Here’s their health in a bottle of wine — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 200]
  • Sixteen bawds in a bagnio grim — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 201]
  • Little Boy — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 202]
  • ERNEST McGAFFEY — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 203]
  • [Here are some of Lady Gregory’s titular works, brief-] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 204]
  • Only awake when slim twilight — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 205]
  • It was only city-folk were hard to Him and blind — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 206]
  • the morning — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 207]
  • Edmund Mitchell’s Rare Versatility — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 208]
  • Whence came you here, and why? — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 209]
  • Thy nectar on the air — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 210]
  • All a woman knows — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 211]
  • The nights were days long — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 212]
  • [You and I and a borrowed child—] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 213]
  • [Illimitation] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 214]
  • I see through the blur of my tears — Ralph Coole [Contribution, p. 215]
  • I thirst! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 216]
  • [You little birds, awake, awake!] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 217]
  • But through the soul expressed — Charles G. Blanden [Contribution, p. 218]
  • To fling one last rose down — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 219]
  • A Valentine — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 220]
  • [A Fear] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 221]
  • Compels me to draw on the bit — W. H. Anderson [Contribution, p. 222]
  • [I do not know the moment when your face—] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 223]
  • Age upon age, have mated souls received — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 224]
  • [Mayhap, I never gave the boy] — Charles G. Blanden [Contribution, p. 225]
  • [Serene the silver fishes glide] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 226]
  • Shining, an altar lamp, a guiding beacon’s rays — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 227]
  • Framed thy fearful symmetry? — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 228]
  • Los Angeles Graphic — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 229]
  • Between Men — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 230]
  • crossings the California railroad commission has just — Mary Aldis [Contribution, p. 231]
  • [Pioneers! O pioneers!] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 232]
  • O pioneers! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 233]
  • Down a new-made double grave — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 234]
  • And the strong dead-march enwraps me — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 235]
  • If we did but know it — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 236]
  • The throned monarch better than his crown — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 237]
  • do cry — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 238]
  • The final Act, the Curtain’s fall — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 239]
  • When love would come? — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 240]
  • And mourns of sin and the length of days — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 241]
  • Sputtering within cans — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 242]
  • shortest, and perhaps the most perfect — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 243]
  • A wounded Tommy said — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 244]
  • [A cloud of agony thy face] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 245]
  • A smile like two blue ice-cliffs as they part — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 246]
  • [Night—] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 247]
  • [Comfort me! Is there no joy] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 248]
  • Wise Heloise, so nobly planned — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 249]
  • Song and Story, Wit and Music — Anonymous [Fiction, p. 250]
  • By Marguerite Wilkinson — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 251]
  • When his mammy ain’t fotch him up no better’n that! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 252]
  • If his mammy’d done done her bounden duty by him — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 253]
  • A-flute in blithe June weather? — Agnes Kendrick Gray [Contribution, p. 254]
  • [They drank the wind’s fierce draughts divine] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 255]
  • I keep you in my heart eternally — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 256]
  • With you companionably close — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 257]
  • [Frances P. Elliott’s novel, “ ,] — Pals First Anonymous [Fiction, p. 258]
  • At Jupiter and Mars — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 259]
  • Give me your breath instead! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 260]
  • Misses not one at all — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 261]
  • [We miss you, Brownie, very much—] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 262]
  • To shine upon my stubborn mood — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 263]
  • Enveloped in your cloak of snow — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 264]
  • out any attempt at editing — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 265]
  • Here he is healed and whole — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 266]
  • Irradiates all their peaks and woods and snows — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 267]
  • [In “The Mexican” we enjoy the ease] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 268]
  • Across the radiance of the moon was drawn — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 269]
  • The poor little hound! — Joy Bennett [Contribution, p. 270]
  • Tenderly sung with sheltering smile — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 271]
  • Your slim, strong shoulder against the wheel — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 272]
  • Who would not find joy in this beautiful little lyric — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 273]
  • [White’s “Leonard Woman] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 274]
  • And when he went the war began! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 275]
  • In old incredible days before your birth — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 276]
  • wise investment — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 277]
  • [O, men from the fields!] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 278]
  • The Child’s Heritage — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 279]
  • The stars of Socrates! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 280]
  • Be thine in life and death! — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 281]
  • When Dad gits down his las’ year's — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 282]
  • Morning Dew — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 283]
  • [Interrogation] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 284]
  • These are the questions that kiddies — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 285]
  • and eagerly said ‘I do!’”’? — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 286]
  • [Gigantic daughter of the West] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 287]
  • A California Garden — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 288]
  • By JO NEELY — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 289]
  • Ballade of Fidelity to Poetry — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 290]
  • In dominant arpeggio — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 291]
  • with JACK BOYLE & KITTY BRYAN the Little Cheerup — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 292]
  • [Memories of vanished years] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 294]
  • western valley — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 295]
  • Ralph Henry Barbour, author of children’s books and romances — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 296]
  • The Iluman — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 297]
  • I threw down my pen in despair — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 298]
  • By JO NEELY — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 299]
  • Yet like a beggar vainly seeking alms — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 300]
  • Ere the last echo dies within our ears — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 301]
  • By JO NEELY — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 302]
  • Or lead us willing from ourselves to see — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 303]
  • To look up- — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 304]
  • there clings — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 305]
  • “[ters. (“ .]” — Beasts and Super-Beasts [Contribution, p. 172]
  • “[Frances P. Elliott’s novel, “ ,]” — Pals First [Fiction, p. 258]
  • “ ” — Captain Kidd, Jr [Contribution, p. 293]
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