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 ...
IAfter long wars when comes releaseNot olive wands proclaiming peace Can import dearer shareThan stems of Herba Santa hazed In autumn's Indian ...
Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn? Hollows thereof lay rich in shadeBy voyagers old inviolate thrown Ere Paul Pry cruised ...
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 ...
Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, More ponderous than nimble;For since grimed War here laid asideHis painted pomp, 'twould ...
1860-1The Ancient of Days forever is young, Forever the scheme of Nature thrives;I know a wind in purpose strong-- It spins _against_ ...
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, ...
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; ...
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 ...
Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill In prime of morn and May, Recall ye how McClellan's men Here stood ...
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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