Edwin Markham Quotes


Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco, this gray-hilled city on the peninsula by the hospitable bay, where Saint Francis protects the ships as he protected the birds of Assisi.


Citations

Markham, Edwin. California the Wonderful, Hearst's International Library Co., 1914, p. 301.

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Edwin Markham
Edwin Markham
  • Born: April 23, 1852
  • Died: March 7, 1940
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Edwin Markham was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.