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 Man (22 Poems)
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 ...
The Victor Of Antietam (Herman Melville Poems)
When tempest winnowed grain from bran;And men were looking for a man,Authority called you to the van, McClellan:Along the line the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pebbles (Herman Melville Poems)
IThough the Clerk of the Weather insist, And lay down the weather-law,Pintado and gannet they wistThat the winds blow whither they ...
The Released Rebel Prisoner (Herman Melville Poems)
June, 1865Armies he's seen--the herds of war, But never such swarms of menAs now in the Nineveh of the North-- How mad ...
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 ...
The New Zealot To The Sun (Herman Melville Poems)
Persian, you riseAflame from climes of sacrifice Where adulators sue,And prostrate man, with brow abased,Adheres to rites whose tenor traced All worship ...
To Ned (Herman Melville Poems)
Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn? Hollows thereof lay rich in shadeBy voyagers old inviolate thrown Ere Paul Pry cruised ...
The Age Of The Antonines (Herman Melville Poems)
While faith forecasts millennial years Spite Europe's embattled lines,Back to the Past one glance be cast-- The Age of the Antonines!O summit ...
The House-Top (Herman Melville Poems)
No sleep. The sultriness pervades the airAnd blinds the brain—a dense oppression, suchAs tawny tigers feel in matted shades,Vexing their ...
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 ...
The Good Craft _Snow Bird_ (Herman Melville Poems)
Strenuous need that head-wind be From purposed voyage that drives at lastThe ship, sharp-braced and dogged still, Beating up against the blast.Brigs ...
On The Photograph Of A Corps Commander (Herman Melville Poems)
Ay, man is manly. Here you see The warrior-carriage of the head,And brave dilation of the frame; And lighting all, the soul ...
Stonewall Jackson (Herman Melville Poems)
Mortally Wounded at ChancellorsvilleThe Man who fiercest charged in fight, Whose sword and prayer were long — Stonewall! Even him who stoutly stood ...
L’Envoi (Herman Melville Poems)
_The Return of the Sire de Nesle._A.D. 16My towers at last! These rovings end,Their thirst is slaked in larger dearth:The ...
Gettysburg (Herman Melville Poems)
O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of ...
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 ...
Gold in the Mountain (Herman Melville Poems)
Gold in the mountain, And gold in the glen, And greed in the heart, Heaven having no part, And unsatisfied ...