The Haglets (Herman Melville Poems)
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beatThe lichened urns in wilds are lostAbout a carved memorial stoneThat shows, decayed and coral-mossed,A ...
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beatThe lichened urns in wilds are lostAbout a carved memorial stoneThat shows, decayed and coral-mossed,A ...
Past the Red Box at Vesey streetSwing two strong tides of hurrying feet,And up and down and all the dayRises ...
This mutilated tree givesMe support, left in this pot-holeIt has the bitterness of a circusBefore or after the show.I watchThe ...
FAR away dim violet mountains Fade away from sight;Flashing from fantastic fountains, Jets the liquid light,Where from Nymph's or Triton's lipBubbling waters ...
Yes! hopeful—trustful—onward ever, Each helping each—all urging all;The mighty stream, receding never; The rippling flow—the waterfall.Slow—swift, but irresistibly,Rolls the grand tide of ...
O give me speech! companionship I ask With my own kind: my soul is sick of books, And longs with passionate longing ...
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
Rose-red for the banner of love, And a blush for the cheek of the bride; To the valleys and hills ...
On her bed of protracted and lingering sickness. ONCE again, long silent lyre,Sound beneath this weary finger,Speak--but breathe with holy ...
APOEM,WRITTEN ON THAT COAST, AND ADDRESSED TO ITS PROPRIETOR,SIR JOHN STANLEY. THEE, STANLEY , thee, our gladden'd spirit hails,Since Life's ...
THE NIGHT descends in glory, and adown the purple west The young moon, like a crescent skiff, upon some fairy ...
GO on, thou great Apostle of the Waters,Fill up the measure of thy useful days;Stem the rough billows that oppose ...
Ah, suffer that my songTo thee alone belong:No dearer happiness my heart would chooseThan thus to cast, O sweet,Each measured ...
"LET me no more a mendicant Without the gate Of the world's kingly palace wait; Morning is spent, The sentinels ...
Careful Observers may fortel the Hour (By sure Prognosticks) when to dread a Show'r: While Rain depends, the pensive Cat ...
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