A Meditation (Herman Melville Poems)
How often in the years that close, When truce had stilled the sieging gun,The soldiers, mounting on their works, With mutual curious ...
How often in the years that close, When truce had stilled the sieging gun,The soldiers, mounting on their works, With mutual curious ...
(A Letter to a Man)(1)My dear Master,This is a letter from a stupid womanHas a stupid woman before me, written ...
In dusk of Eve the city lay-And Life's dark pall lay o'er my heart;My feet, by instinct took the wayTo ...
Sovereign! Am I! By God's decree Of Hell for all eternity, Where joy and peace are never known, Nor light ...
IDemeter devastated our good land,In blackness for her daughter snatched below.Smoke-pillar or loose hillock was the sand,Where soil had been ...
My name was William Kidd,When I sailed,When I sailed,My name was William Kidd,When I sailed,My name was William Kidd,God's laws ...
I don't remember exactly when Budberg died, it was either two years ago or three. The same ...
Poor heart, that wast so proud, how art thou tamed, ...
OH, fatal fruits, nurtured with tears and blood! To taste your richness, we have given youth, Unshadowed mirth, and calm ...
DID she in summer write it, or in spring, Or with this wail of autumn ...
One bitter time of mourning, I remember,When day, and night, my sad heart did complain,My life, I said, was one ...
Absence from thee is something worse than death; For to the heart that slumbers in the shroud, What are the ...
643I could suffice for Him, I knew-He-could suffice for Me-Yet Hesitating Fractions-BothSurveyed Infinity-"Would I be Whole" He sudden broached-My syllable ...
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
Something of God's love revealed in his story faithful though they rebelled strayed from their covenants their way contemptuous sinning ...
At first she was sure it was just a bit of dried strawberry juice, or a fleck of her mother's ...
I could suffice for Him, I knew -- He -- could suffice for Me -- Yet Hesitating Fractions -- Both ...
Michelle, the thought of you confused or under siege bereaves us; you, the cheerful heart who waged a silent war ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
In Rotterdam I'm going to speak about the state of poetry on a panel with a Pole and a Turk. ...
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