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 ...
The gloomy hulls in armor grim, Like clouds o'er moors have met,And prove that oak, and iron, and man Are tough in ...
All honour to Discipline! — happy the land Whose soldiers and sailors obey,—Whose captains and colonels are strict in command,And guide ...
The old sea captain has sailed the seas So long, that the waves at mirth, Or the waves gone wild, and the ...
A SENTIMENTThis "sentiment" was read on the same occasion as the "Family Record,"which immediately follows it. The latter poem is ...
"HO, there! Fisherman, hold your hand! Tell me, what is that far away,- There, where over the isle of ...
So they won't ship me over today, eh?Too old, did you say, an' too lame?It's a hard knock, Cap'n, t' ...
When the night winds blow in from the open sea,And darkness sifts down in the busy street,That's always the lonesomest ...
Swashin' down the quarter-deck, scuppers runnin' free,All th' gang in workin' white, happy as c'n be;Smell o' coffee comin' through ...
A little child, who had desiredTo go and see the Park guns fired,Was taken by his maid that wayUpon the ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
The Injian Ocean sets an' smiles So sof', so bright, so bloomin' blue; There aren't a wave for miles an' ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
I. Oh, what a dawn of day! How the March sun feels like May! All is blue again After last ...
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