Stonewall Jackson (Herman Melville Poems)
Mortally Wounded at ChancellorsvilleThe Man who fiercest charged in fight, Whose sword and prayer were long — Stonewall! Even him who stoutly stood ...
Mortally Wounded at ChancellorsvilleThe Man who fiercest charged in fight, Whose sword and prayer were long — Stonewall! Even him who stoutly stood ...
My Mother! With the angels now,Life's race completely run;The Pilgrim's cross is laid aside,The Christian's crown is won.Full two-score years ...
I'm a poet and nobody needs me,not even if I mutter wordlessly:u-u-u- no matter, for instead of me,prying devils will ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old,Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep?The Hellespont beneath them ...
IDemeter devastated our good land,In blackness for her daughter snatched below.Smoke-pillar or loose hillock was the sand,Where soil had been ...
1The first enters wearing the neon armourOf virtue.Ceaselessly firing all-purpose smilesAt everyone presentShe destroys hopeIn the breasts of the sick,Who ...
THOU couldst not look on me and live: so runs The mortal legend -- thou that couldst not live Nor ...
The ferryman, a green reed 'twixt his teeth,With hand on oar, against the current strongHad rowed and rowed so long.But ...
Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches Life is gay and pleasure ladenAll in vain the law beseeches ...
At night there came unto MacCarthy More A hooded vision with a voice that said, "Go thou straightway and raise ...
I feel the cold closing in, seeping, oozing slowly coming in through the walls, the floor, the panes of tempered ...
Our lives were founded on this rock, this Jessie of Gibraltar Whose unfailing love endured beyond her ample nursing, And ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
Lost aboard the roll of Kodac- olor that was to have super- seded all need to remember Somerset were: a ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old, Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep? The Hellespont ...
I Aria "--Kiss me there where pride is glittering Kiss me where I am ripened and round fruit Kiss me ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song in my own breath. I'm alone here in Brooklyn Heights, late ...
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