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Joaquin Miller

1841–1913


Joaquin Miller (the pen name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller, 1841–1913) was an American poet of the Pacific coast who styled himself the “Poet of the Sierras”.

His Songs of the Sierras (1871) won him a reputation in England as well as in the United States, and he later lived in the hills above Oakland, California.

  1. By the Pacific Ocean
  2. Crossing the Plains
  3. From “Byron”
  4. The Port of Ships
  5. The Defence of the Alamo
  6. Alaska
  7. Rejoice
  8. Cuba Libre
  9. San Francisco
  10. Resurge San Francisco
  11. Westward Ho!
  12. Vaquero
  13. Twilight at the Hights
  14. Dead in the Sierras
  15. Peter Cooper
  16. To Russia
  17. The Voice of the Dove
  18. Juanita
  19. Tantalus — Texas
  20. Song
  21. On Rousseau's Isle

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