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 ...
I, Louis Marin, mariner, born on the Breton coast, Must pass from earth away, And, because wild remorse Pursues me--is my curse, My guilty ...
All day they loitered by the resting ships,Telling their beauties over, taking stock;At night the verdict left my messmate's lips,"The ...
It's human nature for a bashful blokeTo bottle up, an' hesitate, an' doubtTill grinnin' Fate plays him some low-down joke;Then, ...
We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,With our axles near the road-bed and the ...
The listless Palm-trees catch the breeze above The pile-built huts that edge the salt Lagoon,There is no Breeze to cool the ...
This is the tale that was told to me,By a battered and shattered son of the sea-To me and my ...
Blue gulf all around us,Blue sky overhead —Muster all on the quarter,We must bury the dead! It is but a Danish ...
At the foot of Mt. St. Leonard where in spring the wattles glow,Where the mountain-ash and messmate 'midst the densest ...
A LANE of elms in June;-the air Of eve is cool and calm and sweet. See! straying here a ...
HER sails are furled and her anchor's down. The lamps are lighted in Melbourne town; I'll spend my money on ...
He was obviously English, in his Harris tweeds and stockings.And his accent was of Oxford, and his swagger and his ...
We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,With our axles near the road-bed and the ...
For the Visitors' Book at the Inn Who long for rest, who look for pleasure Away from counter, court, or ...
Here in my mountain home, On rugged hills and steep, I sit and watch you come, O Riverinia Sheep! You ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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