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 ...
Dramatis Personae.Werner--Misanthrope.Manuel--a cottager.Albert--his son.Rebecca--wife to Manuel.Rose--his daughter.Spirits.An aerial chorus.A fountain near the summit of a mountain, from which, through adeep ...
The feathery foliage has broadened its leaves, And June, with its beautiful mornings and eves, Its magical atmosphere, breezes and blooms, Its woods ...
I've joined the orders that came our way,- Been sort of a "jiner," as one would say, -And I've bucked ...
URCHIN of the Syrian face,And half melancholy grace,With a look in your dark eyes,Sometimes deep and overwise;What shall be your ...
'As like the Woman as you can' -(Thus the New Adam was beguiled) -'So shall you touch the Perfect Man' ...
I go as a ruleAt the coming of Yule,To a place where the sunshine's obtrusive ;At Hydros I'm found,Where dyspeptics ...
To patient study and unwearied thought,And wise and watchful nurture of his powers,Must the true poet consecrate his hours:Thus, and ...
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
With musing mind I watch thee steal Above those envious clouds that hid ...
WITH silent step behold her steal Over those envious clouds that hidTill now her face, then stand-a seal ...
I A REMOTE sky, prolonged to the sea's brim: One rock-point standing ...
They must not talk....That strong and silent creature, The male of homo sapiens, bears the banWith calm aplomb. Speech is ...
Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore, Cramped in their studies, they sneer and scoldAt the strange, new passions young ...
With brain o'erworn, with heart a summer clod, With eye so practised in each form around,- And all forms mean,-to ...
He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there, A type of ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
Have ever you heard of the Land of Beyond, That dreams at the gates of the day? Alluring it lies ...
More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, ...
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