Joaquin Miller's Poems :: :: University of Virginia Library

Joaquin Miller's Poems

[in six volumes]

Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)

THE TALE OF THE TALL ALCALDE

THE ARIZONIAN

THE LAST TASCHASTAS

BITS FROM INA, A DRAMA

SIERRA GRANDE DEL NORTE

EXODUS FOR OREGON

THE HEROES OF OREGON

WHERE ROLLS THE OREGON

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XIV

The ship crept silent up the sea,
And came—
You cannot understand
How fair she was, how sudden she
Had sprung, full grown, to womanhood.
How gracious, yet how proud and grand;

How glorified, yet fresh and free,
How human, yet how more than good.