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 ...
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beatThe lichened urns in wilds are lostAbout a carved memorial stoneThat shows, decayed and coral-mossed,A ...
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring warsAppeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it ...
Since as in night's deck-watch ye show,Why, lads, so silent here to me,Your watchmate of times long ago?Once, for all ...
There is a coal-black Angel With a thick Afric lip,And he dwells (like the hunted and harried) In a swamp where the ...
(Indicative of the Passion of the Peopleon the 15th Day of April, 1865)* * *Good Friday was the day Of the ...
June, 1865Armies he's seen--the herds of war, But never such swarms of menAs now in the Nineveh of the North-- How mad ...
1864Listless he eyes the palisades And sentries in the glare;'Tis barren as a pelican-beach But his world is ended there.Nothing to do; ...
Departed the pride, and the glory of Mardi:The vaunt of her isles sleeps deep in the sea, That rolls o'er his ...
The sufferance of her race is shown, And retrospect of life,Which now too late deliverance dawns upon; Yet is she not at ...
The sufferance of her race is shown,And retrospect of life,Which now too late deliverance dawns upon;Yet is she not at ...
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice's Hair- ...
O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of ...
Hanging from the beam, Slowly swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on the green, Shenandoah! The cut is on ...
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