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Nora May French was a Californian poet and a member of the bohemian literary circles of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club, which flourished after the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. She gained minor recognition, but no financial stability, through local magazines. Published posthumously by friends in 1910, four years after French's suicide, Poems by Nora May French was the first and only compilation of her works until 2009.

Although many of her poems celebrate the serenity of coastal landscape, others are less sanguine. They offer glimpses into the mind of a young woman plagued by heartbreak and torn between pressure to submit to social roles and longing to live creatively. The most famous poem in the collection, The Spanish Girl, reflects on a failed engagement, the first of many. - Summary by Mary Kay

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The Outer Gate (Jeanie)
Rain / Best-Loved (Jeanie)
The Rose (Eric Metzler)
Between Two Rains (Mary Kay)
The Message / By the Hospital / Oh, Dryad Thoughs (Eric Metzler)
Music in the Pavilion (Leonard Wilson)
Rebuke (Leonard Wilson)
In Camp (Jennifer Duval)
The Nymph (Kristin G.)
Vivisection / The Stranger (Leonard Wilson)
The Constant Ones / Instinct (Jennifer Duval)
San Francisco, New Year's, 1907 (Little Tee)
The Poppy Field (Leonard Wilson)
You (Jennifer Duval)
Just a Dog (Ian King)
Mirage / Dusk (Leonard Wilson)
The Spanish Girl, Part I (Jennifer Duval)
The Spanish Girl, Part II (Kristin G.)
The Spanish Girl, Part III (Kristin G.)
The Garden of Dolores (KHand)
Indifference / After-Knowledge (Melanie Ward)
Two Spendthrift Kings / Growth (James Koss)
Change / Wistaria (Larry Wilson)
My Nook (Shiloh Fuscello)
When Plaintively and Near the Cricket Sings / The Little Memories (Larry Wilson)
Pass By / In Empty Courts (Ian King)
Down the Trail (Kristin G.)
Bells from Over the Hills Sound Sweet (Lanie Butler)
In Town / Moods (KHand)
A Misty Morning / Two Songs (Jesse Liwag)
Noon / Your Beautiful Passing (Alton Kane)
By Moonlight / One Day (DomBombadil)
The Mission Graves / Along the Track (Larry Wilson)
A Place of Dreams / Think Not, O Lilias (Ashley)
To Rosy Buds (Ashley)
Yesterday (Jordan Heron)
The Mourner / Ava Atque Vale (KHand)
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