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 Night (16 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 ...
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 ...
Tom Deadlight (Herman Melville Poems)
Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties,-- Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain,For I've received orders for to sail ...
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! ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Shiloh – A Requiem (Herman Melville Poems)
Skimming lightly, wheeling still,The swallows fly lowOver the field in clouded days,The forest-field of Shiloh —Over the field where April ...
The Figure-Head (Herman Melville Poems)
The _Charles-and-Emma_ seaward sped,(Named from the carven pair at prow,)He so smart, and a curly head,She tricked forth as a ...
The Night March (Herman Melville Poems)
With banners furled and clarions mute, An army passes in the night;And beaming spears and helms salute The dark with bright.In silence ...
Shiloh (Herman Melville Poems)
A Requiem Skimming lightly, wheeling still, The swallows fly low Over the fields in cloudy days, The forest-field of Shiloh ...
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 ...
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 ...
Immolated (Herman Melville Poems)
Children of my happier prime, When One yet lived with me, and threw Her rainbow over life and time, Even ...