The Haglets (Herman Melville Poems)
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beatThe lichened urns in wilds are lostAbout a carved memorial stoneThat shows, decayed and coral-mossed,A ...
Herman Melville Poems on Light (17 Poems)
The Temeraire (Herman Melville Poems)
The gloomy hulls in armor grim, Like clouds o'er moors have met,And prove that oak, and iron, and man Are tough in ...
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 ...
The Aeolian Harp (Herman Melville Poems)
_At The Surf Inn_List the harp in window wailing Stirred by fitful gales from sea:Shrieking up in mad crescendo-- Dying down in ...
A Requiem (Herman Melville Poems)
_For Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports_When, after storms that woodlands rue, To valleys comes atoning dawn,The robins blithe their orchard-sports renew; And ...
Commemorative Of A Naval Victory (Herman Melville Poems)
Sailors there are of the gentlest breed, Yet strong, like every goodly thing;The discipline of arms refines, And the wave gives tempering. The ...
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 ...
Crossing The Tropics (Herman Melville Poems)
From "The Saya-y-Manto."While now the Pole Star sinks from sight The Southern Cross it climbs the sky;But losing thee, my love, ...
The Bench Of Boors (Herman Melville Poems)
In bed I muse on Tenier's boors,Embrowned and beery losels all; A wakeful brain Elaborates pain:Within low doors the slugs of boorsLaze ...
“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 ...
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 ...
The Man-O-War Hawk (Herman Melville Poems)
Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the lightO'er the black ship's white sky-s'l, sunned cloud to the sight,Have we low-flyers wings to ...
The Marchioness Of Brinvilliers (Herman Melville Poems)
He toned the sprightly beam of morning With twilight meek of tender eve,Brightness interfused with softness, Light and shade did weave:And gave ...
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- ...
Gettysburg (Herman Melville Poems)
O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of ...
The Enthusiast (Herman Melville Poems)
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him" Shall hearts that beat no base retreat In youth's magnanimous ...