A Requiem (Herman Melville Poems)
_For Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports_When, after storms that woodlands rue, To valleys comes atoning dawn,The robins blithe their orchard-sports renew; And ...
_For Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports_When, after storms that woodlands rue, To valleys comes atoning dawn,The robins blithe their orchard-sports renew; And ...
Write to thine eyes? Why, my poor penQuails at the unequal task;I fear you don't appreciateThe mighty boon you ask.Thine ...
So oft our hearts, beloved lute,In blossomy haunts of song are mute;So long we pore, 'mid murmurings dull,O'er loveliness unutterable.So ...
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?God, your Maker, asks you why?God, who did your being give,Made you with himself to ...
LEMMINKAINEN'S RESTORATION.Lemminkainen's aged motherAnxious roams about the islands,Anxious wonders in her chambers,What the fate of Lemminkainen,Why her son so long ...
How calm the spangled city spread below! How cool the night! How fair the starry skies! How sweet the dewy ...
LEMMINKAINEN'S LAMENT.This the time to sing of Ahti,Son of Lempo, Kaukomieli,Also known as Lemminkainen.Ahti was the king of islands,Grew amid ...
DEATH OF LEMMINKAINEN.Lemminkainen, much disheartened,Deeply thought and long considered,What to do, what course to follow,Whether best to leave the wild-mooseIn ...
As on this world the young man turns his eyes,When forced to try the dark sea of the grave,Thus did ...
The success of the Scout movement throughout the whole world has been amply proven by the present triumphant gathering in ...
In southern seas we sailed, my love and I, In southern seas. Death joined no chorus as the waves swept ...
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?God, your Maker, asks you why?God, who did your being give,Made you with himself to ...
Look yonder, where the whitened orient skiesGrow splendid with the radiance of the dawn,O'er regal mountains that majestic riseWith misty ...
Written near the sea. THEE! lucid arbiter 'twixt day and night,The seaman greets, as on the ocean streamReflected, thy precursive ...
(For G. H.) Say, does that stupid earth Where they have laid her, Bind still her sullen mirth, Mirth which ...
1 O STAR of France! The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Swiftly walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave Where, all the long and ...
SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave,-- Where, all the long and ...
When we were together, heart of my heart, on that unforgotten quest, With your tender arm about me thrown and ...
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