| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1105. Yuma |
| | | By Charles Henry Phelps |
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| WEARY, weary, desolate, | |
| Sand-swept, parched, and cursed of fate; | |
| Burning, but how passionless! | |
| Barren, bald, and pitiless! | |
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| Through all ages baleful moons | 5 |
| Glared upon thy whited dunes; | |
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| And malignant, wrathful suns | |
| Fiercely drank thy streamless runs; | |
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| So that Nature’s only tune | |
| Is the blare of the simoon, | 10 |
| Piercing burnt unweeping skies | |
| With its awful monodies. | |
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| Not a flower lifts its head | |
| Where the emigrant lies dead; | |
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| Not a living creature calls | 15 |
| Where the Gila Monster crawls, | |
| Hot and hideous as the sun, | |
| To the dead man’s skeleton; | |
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| But the desert and the dead, | |
| And the hot hell overhead, | 20 |
| And the blazing, seething air, | |
| And the dread mirage are there. | |
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