Epilogue (Herman Melville Poems)
_If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,__Shall that exclude the hope--foreclose the fear?_Unmoved by all the claims our times avow,The ...
_If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,__Shall that exclude the hope--foreclose the fear?_Unmoved by all the claims our times avow,The ...
Behold! I am not one that goes to Lectures or the pow-wow ofProfessors.The elementary laws never apologise: neither do I ...
When red-nosed Winter takes the road,An icicle his walking-stick,When frost is on the woodman's load,And snow is falling fast and ...
The cohorts who fought when the world was youngHave their blood-red legends told,For a hundred poets have bravely sungThe deeds ...
Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,The King commanded that there should be builtThree stately houses, one of ...
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two, with but one inning ...
When first Apollo got my brain with Childe,He made large promise never to beguile,But like an honest Father, he would ...
God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men,Whose pious poetry blossoms on your gravesAs soon as you are in ...
Now, Plugger Palook was a man in a thousand -- (Said Horace the Howler) not one of yer fools.But his ...
Batter in the home place,That was nobly done;Try and get the first base—Run! Run! RUN!Ah, there, short stop, will you ...
Now, children, in this lesson of a rather novel sortLet us dwell, however briefly, on the moral phase of sport, ...
When the umpire calls you out,It's no use to stamp and shout,Wildly kicking dust about-Play the game!And though his decision ...
The Court is far away -- No Umpire -- have I -- My Sovereign is offended -- To gain his ...
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two, with but one inning ...
In elder days, in Saturn's prime, Ere baldness seized the head of Time, While truant Jove, in infant pride, Play'd ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Since I have come to years sedate I see with more and more acumen The bitter irony of Fate, The ...
I REMEMBER the Chillicothe ball players grappling the Rock Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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