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 ...
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 ...
Kept up by relays of generations youngNever dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;While in sands, sounds, and seas where ...
(October, 1864)Shoe the steed with silver That bore him to the fray,When he heard the guns at dawning— Miles away;When he heard ...
No sleep. The sultriness pervades the airAnd blinds the brain—a dense oppression, suchAs tawny tigers feel in matted shades,Vexing their ...
Sailors there are of the gentlest breed, Yet strong, like every goodly thing;The discipline of arms refines, And the wave gives tempering. The ...
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 ...
_From "Rammon."_Through storms you reach them and from storms are free. Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,But, nearer, green; and, on ...
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