Joaquin Miller
All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.Collection: Hands
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern CaliforniaCollection: Lonely
Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.Collection: Father
The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.Collection: Mother
I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.Collection: Dream
Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!Collection: Sail
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.Collection: Song
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.Collection: Failure
There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.Collection: Morrow
Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.Collection: Wall
Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.Collection: Honest
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.Collection: Betrayal
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.Collection: Men
Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!Collection: Lying
He gives twice who gives quickly. credited to Publius Syrus Mimus.Collection: Giving
The biggest dog has been a pup.Collection: Dog
Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.Collection: Ocean
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strifeCollection: Brother
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.Collection: Soul
The living grave of crime.Collection: Prison
Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!Collection: Angel
The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.Collection: Butterfly
He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"Collection: Adventure