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 ...
When tempest winnowed grain from bran;And men were looking for a man,Authority called you to the van, McClellan:Along the line the ...
IAfter long wars when comes releaseNot olive wands proclaiming peace Can import dearer shareThan stems of Herba Santa hazed In autumn's Indian ...
There is a coal-black Angel With a thick Afric lip,And he dwells (like the hunted and harried) In a swamp where the ...
_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 ...
IThough the Clerk of the Weather insist, And lay down the weather-law,Pintado and gannet they wistThat the winds blow whither they ...
Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn? Hollows thereof lay rich in shadeBy voyagers old inviolate thrown Ere Paul Pry cruised ...
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 ...
Ha, ha, gods and kings; fill high, one and all;Drink, drink! shout and drink! mad respond to the call!Fill fast, and ...
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 ...
Ay, man is manly. Here you see The warrior-carriage of the head,And brave dilation of the frame; And lighting all, the soul ...
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; ...
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 ...
We drop our dead in the sea, The bottomless, bottomless sea;Each bubble a hollow sigh, As it sinks forever and aye.We drop ...
Silence and solitude may hint (Whose home is in yon piney wood)What I, though tableted, could never tell--The din which here ...
Convulsions came; and, where the field Long slept in pastoral green,A goblin-mountain was upheaved(Sure the scared sense was all deceived), Marl-glen and ...
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 ...
Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends-- Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had heWhom here low violets veil from eyes. But ...
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