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 ...
Herman Melville Poems on God (12 Poems)
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 ...
Herba Santa (Herman Melville Poems)
IAfter long wars when comes releaseNot olive wands proclaiming peace Can import dearer shareThan stems of Herba Santa hazed In autumn's Indian ...
Gold (Herman Melville Poems)
We rovers bold, To the land of Gold,Over the bowling billows are gliding: Eager to toil, For the golden spoil,And every hardship biding. See! ...
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 ...
Invocation (Herman Melville Poems)
Ha, ha, gods and kings; fill high, one and all;Drink, drink! shout and drink! mad respond to the call!Fill fast, and ...
Ball’s Bluff: A Reverie (Herman Melville Poems)
One noonday, at my window in the town, I saw a sight — saddest that eyes can see — Young soldiers marching ...
Aurora Borealis (Herman Melville Poems)
_Commemorative of the Dissolution of armies at the Peace_May, 1865What power disbands the Northern Lights After their steely play?The lonely watcher ...
The Enviable Isles (Herman Melville Poems)
_From "Rammon."_Through storms you reach them and from storms are free. Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,But, nearer, green; and, on ...
Off Cape Colonna (Herman Melville Poems)
Aloof they crown the foreland lone, From aloft they loftier rise--Fair columns, in the aureole rolled From sunned Greek seas and skies.They ...
Gettysburg (Herman Melville Poems)
O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of ...
Falstaff’s Lament Over Prince Hal Become Henry V (Herman Melville Poems)
One that I cherished, Yea, loved as a son - Up early, up late with, My promising one: No use ...