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Also known as Giles Gaston, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, Cincinnatus Heine Miller, Joaquin Cincinnatus Hiner Miller

American poet and frontiersman (1837–1913)

Person · Open Library

Born
1837
Died
1913
Works
110

Top works

  • Light
  • Specimens
  • The Danites in the Sierras
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1904-03-01
Active to
1944-12-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
14

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of the colorful American poet, essayist and fabulist Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller (March 10, 1841, or alternatively September 8, 1837, or November 10, 1841 - February 17, 1913). His parents were Hulen (sometimes “Hulings”) Miller and Margaret Witt who married January 3, 1836 in Union County, Indiana. Most family researchers give his birth date as September 8, 1837 and his birthplace as Liberty, Union County, Indiana. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joaq

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Quotes

  • Who now shall accuse and arraign us? What man shall condemn and disown? Since Christ has said only the stainless Shall cast at his fellows a stone.
  • O star-built bridge, broad milky way! O star-lit, stately, splendid span! If but one star should cease to stay And prop its shoulders to God's plan — The man who lives for self, I say, He lives for neither God nor man.
  • I count the columned waves at war With Titan elements; and they, In martial splendor, storm the bar And shake the world, these bits of spray.
  • 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 strife.
  • In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
  • He rode as rides the hurricane; He seem'd to swallow up the plain; He rode as never man did ride, He rode, for ghosts rode at his side, And on his right a grizzled grim — No, no, this tale is not of him.

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Joaquin Miller, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana