God can find a soul of beauty
Where it falls, as gems of worth
Are found by miners dark in earth.
Joaquin Miller Quotes
1837–1913 United States
Joaquin Miller (September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913) was the pen name of the American poet, essayist and fabulist Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller.
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- 19th-century poets
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Also known as: Miller, Joaquin, Cincinnatus Hiner
44 quotes
That man who lives for self alone
Lives for the meanest mortal known.
The Building of the City Beautiful (1905)
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Each gives to each, and like the star
Gets back its gift in tenfold pay.
The Building of the City Beautiful (1905)
This creature comes from out the dim
Far centuries, beyond the rim
Of time's remotest reach or stir.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)
Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth — the cowards!
The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller (1877)
Here white sea-born clouds companion
With such peaks as know the stars!
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
And love for love is reckoned best.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)
Shadows of Shasta (1881)
Yet are steeps and stone-strown passes
Smooth o'er head, and nearest God.
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Shadows of Shasta (1881)
Time, eftsoon will tumble
All of us together like leaves in a gust,
Humbled indeed down into the dust.
Aye, I built in woe. God willed it;
Woe that passeth ghosts of guilt.
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Shadows of Shasta (1881)
Songs of the Sierras (1871)
Death is delightful. Death is dawn,
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light.
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
I dared not dream she loved me.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joaquin Miller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.