Joaquin Miller

“Who now shall accuse and arraign us? Shall cast at his fellows a stone.”

“O star-built bridge, broad milky way! He lives for neither God nor man.”

“I count the columned waves at war And shake the world, these bits of spray.”

“Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, God pity us all in our pitiful strife.”

“In men whom men condemn as ill Between the two, where God has not.”

“He rode as rides the hurricane; No, no, this tale is not of him.”

“A grand old Neptune in the prow, And so sit silently.”

“Beside Stood king at sea or anywhere.”

“He seem'd as lithe and free and tall Did seem a walking arsenal.”

“I only saw her as she pass'd — And loved and did not blush thereat.”

“O you had loved her sitting there, Their love for light of Paradise.”

“Her mouth By angels on a stair of stars.”

“This creature comes from out the dim Of time's remotest reach or stir.”

“I dared not dream she loved me. Nay, The great majority beyond.”

“Lo! all things moving must go by. And only God is in the sky.”

“Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt The awful autograph of God!”

“A thousand miles of mighty wood And yet there be men who question God!”

“The mountains from that fearful first The Christ did come when death drew near.”

“These stony altars they have hurled The mountains stand, and eternally.”

“For the Right, through thickest night, Are found by miners dark in earth.”

“Come listen, O Love, to the voice of the dove, THERE IS ONLY ONE TO-DAY.”

“We plant this stone as some small seed To touch the God-built stars sublime.”

“Man's books are but a climbing stair, The God who called him from the dust.”