Joaquin Miller: Quotes about stars

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“Each gives to each, and like the star
Gets back its gift in tenfold pay.”

Joaquin Miller

The Building of the City Beautiful (1905), Ch. V : How Beautiful!, p. 48.
Context: p>Each gives to each, and like the star
Gets back its gift in tenfold pay.To get and give and give amain
The rivers run and oceans roll.
O generous and high-born rain
When reigning as a splendid whole!
That man who lives for self alone
Lives for the meanest mortal known.</p

Star

“Here white sea-born clouds companion
With such peaks as know the stars!”

Joaquin Miller

"Juanita".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Rugged! Rugged as Parnassus!
Rude, as all roads I have trod —
Yet are steeps and stone-strown passes
Smooth o'er head, and nearest God.Here black thunders of my canyon
Shake its walls in Titan wars!
Here white sea-born clouds companion
With such peaks as know the stars!</p

Star , Sea

“Her mouth
Was roses gather'd from the south,
The warm south side of Paradise,
And breathed upon and handed down,
By angels on a stair of stars.”

Joaquin Miller

IV, p. 28.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

Angels , Star

“We plant this stone as some small seed
Is sown at springtime, warm with earth;
We sow this seed as some good deed
Is sown, to grow until its worth
Shall grow, through rugged steeps of time,
To touch the God-built stars sublime.”

Joaquin Miller

"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)

God , Star , Time

“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.”

Joaquin Miller

The Building of the City Beautiful (1905), Ch. V : How Beautiful!, p. 48.

God , Way , Star