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 Time (11 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 ...
On The Slain Collegians (Herman Melville Poems)
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring warsAppeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it ...
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 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 ...
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 Land Of Love (Herman Melville Poems)
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 ...
Marlena (Herman Melville Poems)
Far off in the sea is Marlena,A land of shades and streams,A land of many delights,Dark and bold, thy shores, ...
Lone Founts (Herman Melville Poems)
Though fast youth's glorious fable flies,View not the world with worldling's eyes;Nor turn with weather of the time.Foreclose the coming ...
Immolated (Herman Melville Poems)
Children of my happier prime, When One yet lived with me, and threw Her rainbow over life and time, Even ...
Misgivings (Herman Melville Poems)
When ocean-clouds over inland hills Sweep storming in late autumn brown, And horror the sodden valley fills, And the spire ...