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Joaquin Miller, eigentlich Cincinnatus Hiner Miller war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Millers Geburtsdatum ist strittig. Neben dem offiziellen Datum wird gelegentlich auch der 10. November 1841 angegeben.

Millers Eltern waren Quäker. 1852 wanderten sie nach Oregon aus, wo sie sich als Farmer im Tal des Willamette-Flusses niederließen. Während des Goldrausches ging Miller nach Kalifornien, um in mehreren Schürfercamps zu arbeiten. In den folgenden Jahren war er – eigenen Angaben zufolge – in Kämpfe mit Indianern verwickelt, bei denen er wiederholt verwundet wurde. Möglicherweise handelt es sich dabei jedoch um ins Abenteuerliche überhöhte Erzählungen.

Sicher hingegen ist, dass Miller in Oregon Jura studierte und anschließend als Goldsucher nach Idaho ging. Zu Beginn des Bürgerkrieges war er wieder in Oregon, wo er eine Zeitung, die Eugene City Democratic Register erwarb und als Journalist und Herausgeber tätig war.

1868 erschien sein erstes Buch, ein Gedichtband. 1870 ging er nach England, wo er rasch zur literarischen Sensation wurde, wozu seine Rolle als amerikanischer Naturbursche, der den Goldrausch erlebt und mit den Indianern gekämpft hatte, nicht wenig beitrug.

1883 kehrte Miller in die USA zurück und ließ sich in Oakland nieder. Während des Goldrausches in Alaska ging Miller nach Klondike, von wo aus er als Journalist berichtete und angeblich auch selbst einiges Gold schürfte.

✵ 8. September 1837 – 17. Februar 1913
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“O woman, born first to believe us;
Yea, also born first to forget;
Born first to betray and deceive us,
Yet first to repent and regret!

O first then in all that is human,
Lo! first where the Nazarene trod,
O woman! O beautiful woman!
Be then first in the kingdom of God!”

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The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller (1877), p. 52.

“O you had loved her sitting there,
Half hidden in her loosen'd hair:
Why, you had loved her for her eyes,
Their large and melancholy look
Of tenderness, and well mistook
Their love for light of Paradise.”

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IV, p. 27.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

“Her mouth
Was roses gather'd from the south,
The warm south side of Paradise,
And breathed upon and handed down,
By angels on a stair of stars.”

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IV, p. 28.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

“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 trust,
The God who called him from the dust.”

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"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)

“I count the columned waves at war
With Titan elements; and they,
In martial splendor, storm the bar
And shake the world, these bits of spray.”

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The Building of the City Beautiful (1905), Ch. V : How Beautiful!, p. 48.

“We plant this stone as some small seed
Is sown at springtime, warm with earth;
We sow this seed as some good deed
Is sown, to grow until its worth
Shall grow, through rugged steeps of time,
To touch the God-built stars sublime.”

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"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)

“Who now shall accuse and arraign us?
What man shall condemn and disown?
Since Christ has said only the stainless
Shall cast at his fellows a stone.”

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The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller (1877), p. 52.

“Beside
The grim old sea-king sits his bride,
A sun-land blossom, rudely torn
From tropic forests to be worn
Above as stern a breast as e'er
Stood king at sea or anywhere.”

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III, p. 22.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

“He seem'd as lithe and free and tall
And restless as the boughs that stir
Perpetual topt poplar trees.
And one, that one, had eyes to teach
The art of love, and tongue to preach
Life's hard and sober homilies;
And yet his eager hands, his speech,
All spoke the bold adventurer;
While zoned about the belt of each
There swung a girt of steel, till all
Did seem a walking arsenal.”

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III, p. 23.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

“O star-built bridge, broad milky way!
O star-lit, stately, splendid span!
If but one star should cease to stay
And prop its shoulders to God's plan —
The man who lives for self, I say,
He lives for neither God nor man.”

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The Building of the City Beautiful (1905), Ch. V : How Beautiful!, p. 48.

“In men whom men condemn as ill
I find so much of goodness still.
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot
I hesitate to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.”

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Joaquin Miller Songs of the Sierras

Burns and Byron (also known as In Men Whom Men Condemn), p. 175.
Songs of the Sierras (1871)‎

“A grand old Neptune in the prow,
Gray-hair'd, and white with touch of time,
Yet strong as in his middle prime;
A grizzled king, I see him now,
With beard as blown by wind of seas,
And wild and white as white sea-storm,
Stand up, turn suddenly, look back
Along the low boat's wrinkled track,
Then fold his mantle round a form
Broad-built as any Hercules,
And so sit silently.”

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III, p. 22.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

“A face that lifted up; sweet face
That was so like a life begun,
That rose for me a rising sun
Above the bended seven hills
Of dead and risen old new Rome.

Not that I deem'd she loved me. Nay,
I dared not even dream of that.
I only say I knew her; say
She ever sat before me, sat
All still and voiceless as love is,
And ever look'd so fair, divine,
Her hush'd, vehement soul fill'd mine,
And overflowed with Runic bliss,
And made itself a part of this.”

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IV, p. 27.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

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