Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his t…

- Joaquin Miller

The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers…

- Joaquin Miller

I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.

- Joaquin Miller

All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

- Joaquin Miller

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

- Joaquin Miller

UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY, FOR THE SUNSHINE SHALL FOLLOW THE R…

- Joaquin Miller

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

- Joaquin Miller

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

- Joaquin Miller

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as so…

- Joaquin Miller