I heard the desert calling
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I heard the desert calling
I heard the desert calling, and my heart stood still--
There was winter in my world and in my heart;
A breath came from the mesa, and a message stirred my will,
And my soul and I arose up to depart.
I heard the desert calling, and I knew that over there
In an olive-sheltered garden where the mesquite grows,
Was a woman of the sunrise with the star-shine in her hair
And a beauty that the almond-blossom blows.
In the night-time when the ghost-trees glimmered in the moon,
Where the mesa by the water-course was spanned,
Her loveliness enwrapped me like the blessedness of June,
And all my life was thrilling in her hand.
I hear the desert calling, and my heart stands still--
There is summer in my world, and in my heart;
A breath comes from the mesa, and a will beyond my will
Binds my footsteps as I rise up to depart.
About Gilbert Parker
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Summary
Introduction
Volume I
Proem
Rosleen
Will you come back home?
Mary Callaghan and me
Kildare
You'll travel far and wide
Farcalladen Rise
Give Me the Light Heart
Where shall we betake us?
No Man's Land
At Sea
Athenian
Eyes like the sea
Under the Cliff
Open thy gate
Summer is come
O flower of all the world
Was it some golden star?
I heard the desert calling
The forgotten word
What will it matter?
The courier star
The World in Making
Hew
O son of man
At the end of the world
Wayfarers
The Red Patrol
The Yellow Swan
The heart of the pioneer
The North Trail
Alone
The Scarlet Hills
The Woodsman Lover
Qui Vive!
The Little House
Spinning
Fly away, my heart
Suzon
My little tender heart
The Men of the North
The Crowning
Close up
W. E. H.
When blows the wind
Volume II
Dolly
Life's sweet wages
To the valley
The Lily Flower
Love in her cold grave lies
Granada, Granada
The New Aphrodite
An ancient pledge
The Tribute of King Hath
There is an orchard
Heart of the World
Epitaphs
The sea-reapers
The Watcher
The waking
When one forgets
Aloes and Myrrh
In waste places
Last of all
After
Remedial
The Twilight of Love
Irrevocable
The Last Dream
Waiting
In Maytime
Inside the bar
The children
Little Garaine
To a little child
L'Empereur, Mort
Phyllis
Bairnie
Volume III
In Camden Town
Jean
A Memory
In camp at Juniper Cove
Juniper Cove twenty years after
Listening
Nevertheless
Ishmael
Over the hills
The Deliverer
The Desert Road
A son of the Nile
A Farewell from the Harem
An Arab Love Song
The camel driver to his camel
The Tall Dakoon
There is sorrow on the sea
The Australian Stockrider
The Bridge of the Hundred Spans
Nell Latore
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