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 Life (15 Poems)
Stonewall Jackson (Ascribed To A Virginian) (Herman Melville Poems)
One man we claim of wrought reknown Which not the North shall care to slur;A Modern lived who sleeps in death, Calm ...
John Marr And Other Sailors (Herman Melville Poems)
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 ...
Jack Roy (Herman Melville Poems)
Kept up by relays of generations youngNever dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;While in sands, sounds, and seas where ...
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 ...
Rebel Color-Bearers At Shiloh (Herman Melville Poems)
_A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civiliansshortly after the surrender at Appomattox_The color-bearers facing deathWhite in the whirling ...
A Dirge For McPherson (Herman Melville Poems)
Arms reversed and banners creped — Muffled drums;Snowy horses sable-draped — McPherson comes. But, tell us, shall we know him more, Lost-Mountain and lone ...
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 ...
The Land Of Love (Herman Melville Poems)
Hail! voyagers, hail!Whence e'er ye come, where'er ye rove, No calmer strand, No sweeter land,Will e'er ye view, than the Land of ...
Memorials On The Slain At Chickamauga (Herman Melville Poems)
Happy are they and charmed in life Who through long wars arrive unscarredAt peace. To such the wreath be given,If they ...
“Formerly A Slave” (Herman Melville Poems)
The sufferance of her race is shown, And retrospect of life,Which now too late deliverance dawns upon; Yet is she not at ...
Monody (Herman Melville Poems)
To have known him, to have loved him After loneness long;And then to be estranged in life, And neither in the wrong;And ...
Formerly A Slave (Herman Melville Poems)
The sufferance of her race is shown,And retrospect of life,Which now too late deliverance dawns upon;Yet is she not at ...
America (Herman Melville Poems)
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice's Hair- ...
Chattanooga (Herman Melville Poems)
(November, 1863) A kindling impulse seized the host Inspired by heaven's elastic air; Their hearts outran their General's plan, Though ...