Bridegroom Dick (Herman Melville Poems)
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
Since quite a boy Hal Gradient had beenNoted for ingenuity--betweenThe hours when not on active duty heImmersed in some new ...
In the upper circles Moves a famous manWho has had no equal Since the world began.He was once a broker Down by the ...
Often, when o'er tree and turret,Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I lingerKnown familiarly as 'King's.'And the ghosts ...
Infinity, when all things it beheldIn Nothing, and of Nothing all did build,Upon what base was fixed the lath whereinHe ...
It was such a lovely sunshine-day,The house and the yard couldn't hold me;I roved to the woods, on my back ...
In one of London's most exclusive haunts,Amid the shining lights and table ware,We sat, where meagre Mistress Ration flauntsHerself in ...
The blackbird sang, the skies were clear and cleanWe bowled along a road that curved a spineSuperbly sinuous and serpentineThro' ...
"Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's dayGave his broad lawns until the set of sunUp to the people: thither flocked ...
Often, when o'er tree and turret, Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I linger Known familiarly as "King's."And ...
"'T IS of a gallant Yankee ship that flew the stripes and stars, And the whistling wind from the west-nor'-west ...
Infinity, when all things it beheldIn Nothing, and of Nothing all did build,Upon what base was fixed the lath whereinHe ...
It was such a lovely sunshine-day, The house and the yard couldn't hold me;I roved to the woods, on my ...
IThe day that is the night of days,With cannon-fire for sun ablazeWe spy from any billow's lift;And England still this ...
Oh, what a pleasant game is life When we are bravely battingAnd glorying in skill and strife. We ...
name meaning thread weaver or duck (these may be guesses from obscurity) ten-year faithful wife whilst her husband was gallivanting ...
"Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? ...
Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the people: ...
I guess folks think I'm mighty dumb Since Jack and Jim and Joe Have hit the trail to Kingdom Come ...
You want me to tell you a story, a yarn of the firin' line, Of our thin red kharki 'eroes, ...
Lilacs blossom just as sweet Now my heart is shattered. If I bowled it down the street, Who's to say ...
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