The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

 88–95. Lawrence Edgar Lee Masters Benjamin De Casseres and George Sterling were close friends of Jeffers Sterling having the longest and most intimate relationship with him. His poem "The Beaks of Eagles" was made into a song by The Beach Boys on their album Holland (1973).

Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and epic form but today he is also known for his short verse and considered an icon of the environmental movement.