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Joaquin Miller's Poems

[in six volumes]

Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)

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AN INTRODUCTION

WHEN LITTLE SISTER CAME

AT LORD BYRON'S TOMB.

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LATER LINES PREFERRED BY LONDON

THE PASSING OF TENNYSON

THE AMERICAN OCEAN

THE BIRDS AND BEES

CALIFORNIA'S CUP OF GOLD

THE FORTUNATE ISLES

DON'T STOP AT THE STATION DESPAIR

TO ANDREW CARNEGIE

ON THE FIRING LINE

TO RACHAEL IN RUSSIA

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LESSONS FOR MY LOVERS

IS IT WORTH WHILE?

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LINES THAT PAPA LIKED

PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT

A HARD ROW FOR STUMPS

AT MARY'S FOUNTAIN, NAZARETH

THE VOICE OF THE DOVE

WASHINGTON BY THE DELAWARE

FOR THOSE WHO FAIL

THE LIGHT OF CHRIST'S FACE

CALIFORNIA'S RESURRECTION

IN MEN WHOM MEN CONDEMN

DEATH IS DELIGHTFUL

THE SONG OF THE SILENCE

THE LAST SUPPER

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LINES MOTHER LIKED

OH, FOR ENGLAND'S OLD-TIME THUNDER!

THE BRAVEST BATTLE

THE LITTLE BROWN MAN

THE FOURTH IN HAWAIIAN WATERS

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WALKER IN NICARAGUA

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THE TALE OF THE TALL ALCALDE

THE LAST TASCHASTAS

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BITS FROM INA, A DRAMA

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KIT CARSON'S RIDE

OYE-AGUA: OREGON

SIERRA GRANDE DEL NORTE

EXODUS FOR OREGON

THE HEROES OF OREGON

WHERE ROLLS THE OREGON

PICTURE OF A BULL

TO REST AT LAST

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DAWN AT SAN DIEGO

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THE SHIP IN THE DESERT

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ISLES OF THE AMAZONS

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AN INDIAN SUMMER

FROM SEA TO SEA

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A SONG OF THE SOUTH

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RESURGO SAN FRANCISCO

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SONGS OF ITALY AND OTHERS

THE IDEAL AND THE REAL

A DOVE OF ST. MARK

SUNRISE IN VENICE

“POVERIS! POVERIS!”

ATTILA'S THRONE, TORCELLO

A HAILSTORM IN VENICE

SANTA MARIA: TORCELLO

THE CAPUCIN OF ROME

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SONGS OF THE HEBREW CHILDREN

[“In the desert a fountain is springing]

A SONG FOR PEACE

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THE ULTIMATE WEST

[My Mountains still are free!]

THE GOLD THAT GREW BY SHASTA TOWN

THE SIOUX CHIEF'S DAUGHTER

A SHASTA TALE OF LOVE

LOVE IN THE SIERRAS

OLD GIB AT CASTLE ROCKS

THE LARGER COLLEGE

TO THE PIONEERS

“49”

PIONEERS TO THE GREAT EMERALD LAND

TWILIGHT AT THE HIGHTS

BY THE BALBOA SEAS

MAGNOLIA BLOSSOMS

CALIFORNIA'S CHRISTMAS

THE MEN OF FORTY-NINE

THE HEROES OF AMERICA

DEAD IN THE SIERRAS

“THE FOURTH” IN OREGON

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LOG CABIN LINES

THE SOLDIERS' HOME, WASHINGTON

THE BATTLE FLAG AT SHENANDOAH

THE LOST REGIMENT

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MISCELLANEOUS LINES

THE WORLD IS A BETTER WORLD

DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI AT NIGHT

A NUBIAN FACE ON THE NILE

A CHRISTMAS EVE IN CUBA

OUR HEROES OF TODAY

BY THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI

DEAD IN THE LONG, STRONG GRASS

HE LOVES AND RIDES AWAY

AFTER THE BATTLE

THOSE PERILOUS SPANISH EYES

THE COMING OF SPRING

CHRISTMAS BY THE GREAT RIVER

THOMAS OF TIGRE

THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS

THE RIVER OF REST

THE NEW PRESIDENT

MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC

SUMMER MOONS AT MOUNT VERNON

THE POEM BY THE POTOMAC

A DEAD CARPENTER

BOSTON TO THE BOERS

WESTMINSTER ABBEY

AT LORD BYRON'S TOMB

RIEL, THE REBEL

THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMO

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SEMI-HUMOROUS SONGS

IN CLASSIC SHADES

THAT GENTLE MAN FROM BOSTON

WILLIAM BROWN OF OREGON

HORACE GREELEY'S DRIVE

THAT FAITHFUL WIFE OF IDAHO

SARATOGA AND THE PSALMIST

A TURKEY HUNT IN TEXAS

THAT USSIAN OF USLAND

WELCOME TO THE GREAT AMERICAN OCEAN

TWO WISE OLD MEN OF OMAR'S LAND

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A SONG OF CREATION

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WITH LOVE TO YOU AND YOURS

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HINTS FROM THE HIGHTS

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“49”

We have worked our claims,
We have spent our gold,
Our barks are astrand on the bars;
We are battered and old,
Yet at night we behold,
Outcroppings of gold in the stars.

Chorus—

Tho' battered and old,
Our hearts are bold,
Yet oft do we repine;
For the days of old,
For the days of gold,
For the days of forty-nine.

Where the rabbits play,
Where the quail all day
Pipe on the chaparral hill;
A few more days,
And the last of us lays
His pick aside and all is still.

We are wreck and stray,
We are cast away,
Poor battered old hulks and spars;
But we hope and pray,
On the judgment day,
We shall strike it up in the stars.

This poem is taken from “'49, or the Gold Seekers,” by permission of Funk & Wagnalls, New York, publishers of the book. The words have been set to music and selected as the Song of the Native Sons of California. It was sung in Mining Camps long before it was in print.