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Joaquin Miller's Poems
[in six volumes]
Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)
1.
Volume One
[dedication]
AN INTRODUCTION
LATER LINES PREFERRED BY LONDON
LESSONS FOR MY LOVERS
LINES THAT PAPA LIKED
LINES MOTHER LIKED
2.
Volume Two
3.
Volume Three
4.
Volume Four
5.
Volume Five
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Joaquin Miller's Poems
XV
Defeat meant something more than death;
The world was ready, keen to smite,
As stern and still beneath its ban
With iron will and bated breath,
Their hands against their fellow-man,
They rode—each man an Ishmaelite.
Joaquin Miller's Poems