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 ...
Within the great grey flapping tentThe damp crowd stood or stamped about;And some came in, and some went outTo drink ...
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
President Lincoln, he has died,And gone to swell the upper tide;He on the earth will move on more-He's landed on ...
Yes, that's the hardest hand at all upon my frosted head-That telegram that brought the news that Father Pat is ...
Times I think I'm not the man- Must be some mistake.Me among the also ran? Cute and wideawake!Old and beat and crotchety- Sixty-five, ...
When underneath the brown dead grass My weary bones are laid,I hope I shall not see the glass At ninety in the ...
I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more;I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war. A ...
When Morgan crossed the Murray to Peechelba and doomA sombre silent shadow rode with him through the gloom.The wild things ...
To Portland.(From A Centennial Poem)O City of my heart! in dreams, Sweet dreams, I see thee as of yore,And catch ...
We quarreled that morning,For he was sixty-five, and I was thirty,And I was nervous and heavy with the childWhose birth ...
Celia, we know, is sixty-five,Yet Celia's face is seventeen;Thus winter in her breast must live,While summer in her face is ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
I was only a young man In those days. On that evening The cold was so God damned Bitter there ...
The admirable number pi: three point one four one. All the following digits are also just a start, five nine ...
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one, And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer; ...
My first I wed when just sixteen And he was sixty-five. He treated me like any queen The years he ...
We quarreled that morning, For he was sixty-five, and I was thirty, And I was nervous and heavy with the ...
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