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 War & Peace (19 Poems)
Stonewall Jackson (Ascribed To A Virginian) (Herman Melville Poems)
One man we claim of wrought reknown Which not the North shall care to slur;A Modern lived who sleeps in death, Calm ...
A Meditation (Herman Melville Poems)
How often in the years that close, When truce had stilled the sieging gun,The soldiers, mounting on their works, With mutual curious ...
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 ...
The Temeraire (Herman Melville Poems)
The gloomy hulls in armor grim, Like clouds o'er moors have met,And prove that oak, and iron, and man Are tough in ...
Herba Santa (Herman Melville Poems)
IAfter long wars when comes releaseNot olive wands proclaiming peace Can import dearer shareThan stems of Herba Santa hazed In autumn's Indian ...
The Released Rebel Prisoner (Herman Melville Poems)
June, 1865Armies he's seen--the herds of war, But never such swarms of menAs now in the Nineveh of the North-- How mad ...
Rebel Color-Bearers At Shiloh (Herman Melville Poems)
_A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civiliansshortly after the surrender at Appomattox_The color-bearers facing deathWhite in the whirling ...
The March Into Viriginia (Herman Melville Poems)
Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end,Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must its ...
The College Colonel (Herman Melville Poems)
He rides at their head; A crutch by his saddle just slants in view,One slung arm in splints, you see, Yet he ...
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 ...
A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor’s Fight (Herman Melville Poems)
Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, More ponderous than nimble;For since grimed War here laid asideHis painted pomp, 'twould ...
A Dirge For McPherson (Herman Melville Poems)
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 ...
Ball’s Bluff: A Reverie (Herman Melville Poems)
One noonday, at my window in the town, I saw a sight — saddest that eyes can see — Young soldiers marching ...
The Eagle of the Blue (Herman Melville Poems)
ALOFT he guards the starry folds Who is the brother of the star;The bird whose joy is in the wind Exulteth in ...
Aurora Borealis (Herman Melville Poems)
_Commemorative of the Dissolution of armies at the Peace_May, 1865What power disbands the Northern Lights After their steely play?The lonely watcher ...
Memorials On The Slain At Chickamauga (Herman Melville Poems)
Happy are they and charmed in life Who through long wars arrive unscarredAt peace. To such the wreath be given,If they ...
America (Herman Melville Poems)
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice's Hair- ...
The Portent (Herman Melville Poems)
Hanging from the beam, Slowly swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on the green, Shenandoah! The cut is on ...