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 ...
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beatThe lichened urns in wilds are lostAbout a carved memorial stoneThat shows, decayed and coral-mossed,A ...
When tempest winnowed grain from bran;And men were looking for a man,Authority called you to the van, McClellan:Along the line the ...
One man we claim of wrought reknown Which not the North shall care to slur;A Modern lived who sleeps in death, Calm ...
How often in the years that close, When truce had stilled the sieging gun,The soldiers, mounting on their works, With mutual curious ...
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring warsAppeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it ...
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 ...
The gloomy hulls in armor grim, Like clouds o'er moors have met,And prove that oak, and iron, and man Are tough in ...
IAfter long wars when comes releaseNot olive wands proclaiming peace Can import dearer shareThan stems of Herba Santa hazed In autumn's Indian ...
Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties,-- Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain,For I've received orders for to sail ...
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! ...
There is a coal-black Angel With a thick Afric lip,And he dwells (like the hunted and harried) In a swamp where the ...
Kept up by relays of generations youngNever dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;While in sands, sounds, and seas where ...
_If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,__Shall that exclude the hope--foreclose the fear?_Unmoved by all the claims our times avow,The ...
_At The Surf Inn_List the harp in window wailing Stirred by fitful gales from sea:Shrieking up in mad crescendo-- Dying down in ...
(Indicative of the Passion of the Peopleon the 15th Day of April, 1865)* * *Good Friday was the day Of the ...
(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 ...
IThough the Clerk of the Weather insist, And lay down the weather-law,Pintado and gannet they wistThat the winds blow whither they ...
June, 1865Armies he's seen--the herds of war, But never such swarms of menAs now in the Nineveh of the North-- How mad ...
_A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civiliansshortly after the surrender at Appomattox_The color-bearers facing deathWhite in the whirling ...
I saw a ship of material build(Her standards set, her brave apparel on)Directed as by madness mereAgainst a solid iceberg ...
Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end,Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must its ...
He rides at their head; A crutch by his saddle just slants in view,One slung arm in splints, you see, Yet he ...
Persian, you riseAflame from climes of sacrifice Where adulators sue,And prostrate man, with brow abased,Adheres to rites whose tenor traced All worship ...
I have a feeling for those ships,Each worn and ancient one,With great bluff bows, and broad in the beam:Ay, it ...
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 ...
No sleep. The sultriness pervades the airAnd blinds the brain—a dense oppression, suchAs tawny tigers feel in matted shades,Vexing their ...
Ha, ha, gods and kings; fill high, one and all;Drink, drink! shout and drink! mad respond to the call!Fill fast, and ...
_For Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports_When, after storms that woodlands rue, To valleys comes atoning dawn,The robins blithe their orchard-sports renew; And ...
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