Joaquin Miller
Best-known poems
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Columbus
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the Gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores, … -
Westward Ho!
What strength! what strife! what rude unrest!
What shocks! what half-shaped armies met!
A mighty nation moving west, …
All poems (15)
- A California ChristmasBEHOLD where Beauty walks with Peace!
- Above the Clouds’MID white Sierras, that slope to the sea,
- At the Grave of WalkerHe lies low in the levelled sand,
- By the Pacific OceanHere room and kingly silence keep
- ColumbusBehind him lay the gray Azores,
- Crossing the PlainsWhat great yoked brutes with briskets low,
- Dead in the Sierrashis footprints have failed us,
- Juanitayou will come, my bird, Bonita?
- Peter Coopergive honor and love for evermore
- ProemFrom “The Isles of the Amazons,” Part III.
- The Voice of the DoveCome listen, O Love, to the voice of the dove,
- To RussiaWho tamed your lawless Tartar blood?
- Twilight at the HeightsThe brave young city by the Balboa seas
- VaqueroHis broad-brimmed hat pushed back with careless air,
- Westward Ho!What strength! what strife! what rude unrest!