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 ...
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beatThe lichened urns in wilds are lostAbout a carved memorial stoneThat shows, decayed and coral-mossed,A ...
How often in the years that close, When truce had stilled the sieging gun,The soldiers, mounting on their works, With mutual curious ...
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 gloomy hulls in armor grim, Like clouds o'er moors have met,And prove that oak, and iron, and man Are tough in ...
I have a feeling for those ships,Each worn and ancient one,With great bluff bows, and broad in the beam:Ay, it ...
No sleep. The sultriness pervades the airAnd blinds the brain—a dense oppression, suchAs tawny tigers feel in matted shades,Vexing their ...
1860-1The Ancient of Days forever is young, Forever the scheme of Nature thrives;I know a wind in purpose strong-- It spins _against_ ...
Ay, man is manly. Here you see The warrior-carriage of the head,And brave dilation of the frame; And lighting all, the soul ...
_Commemorative of the Dissolution of armies at the Peace_May, 1865What power disbands the Northern Lights After their steely play?The lonely watcher ...
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; ...
When ocean-clouds over inland hills Sweep storming in late autumn brown, And horror the sodden valley fills, And the spire ...
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