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 ...
Herman Melville Poems (92 Poems)
Commemorative Of A Naval Victory (Herman Melville Poems)
Sailors there are of the gentlest breed, Yet strong, like every goodly thing;The discipline of arms refines, And the wave gives tempering. The ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
We Fish (Herman Melville Poems)
We fish, we fish, we merrily swim,We care not for friend nor for foe. Our fins are stout, Our tails are out,As ...
The Good Craft _Snow Bird_ (Herman Melville Poems)
Strenuous need that head-wind be From purposed voyage that drives at lastThe ship, sharp-braced and dogged still, Beating up against the blast.Brigs ...
On The Photograph Of A Corps Commander (Herman Melville Poems)
Ay, man is manly. Here you see The warrior-carriage of the head,And brave dilation of the frame; And lighting all, the soul ...
From The Conflict Of Convictions (Herman Melville Poems)
1860-1The Ancient of Days forever is young, Forever the scheme of Nature thrives;I know a wind in purpose strong-- It spins _against_ ...
Crossing The Tropics (Herman Melville Poems)
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Enviable Isles (Herman Melville Poems)
_From "Rammon."_Through storms you reach them and from storms are free. Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,But, nearer, green; and, on ...
Stonewall Jackson (Herman Melville Poems)
Mortally Wounded at ChancellorsvilleThe Man who fiercest charged in fight, Whose sword and prayer were long — Stonewall! Even him who stoutly stood ...
In The Prison Pen (Herman Melville Poems)
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; ...
Song Of Yoomy (Herman Melville Poems)
Departed the pride, and the glory of Mardi:The vaunt of her isles sleeps deep in the sea, That rolls o'er his ...
The Bench Of Boors (Herman Melville Poems)
In bed I muse on Tenier's boors,Embrowned and beery losels all; A wakeful brain Elaborates pain:Within low doors the slugs of boorsLaze ...
Shiloh – A Requiem (Herman Melville Poems)
Skimming lightly, wheeling still,The swallows fly lowOver the field in clouded days,The forest-field of Shiloh —Over the field where April ...
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 ...
The Figure-Head (Herman Melville Poems)
The _Charles-and-Emma_ seaward sped,(Named from the carven pair at prow,)He so smart, and a curly head,She tricked forth as a ...
Dirge (Herman Melville Poems)
We drop our dead in the sea, The bottomless, bottomless sea;Each bubble a hollow sigh, As it sinks forever and aye.We drop ...
An Uninscribed Monument on One of the Battle-Fields of the Wilderness (Herman Melville Poems)
Silence and solitude may hint (Whose home is in yon piney wood)What I, though tableted, could never tell--The din which here ...
The Apparition: A Retrospect (Herman Melville Poems)
Convulsions came; and, where the field Long slept in pastoral green,A goblin-mountain was upheaved(Sure the scared sense was all deceived), Marl-glen and ...
Dupont’s Round Fight (November, 1861) (Herman Melville Poems)
In time and measure perfect moves All Art whose aim is sure;Evolving rhyme and stars divine Have rules, and they endure.Nor less ...
L’Envoi (Herman Melville Poems)
_The Return of the Sire de Nesle._A.D. 16My towers at last! These rovings end,Their thirst is slaked in larger dearth:The ...
Inscription (Herman Melville Poems)
_For Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas_Let none misgive we died amiss When here we strove in furious fight:Furious it was; nathless ...
The Night March (Herman Melville Poems)
With banners furled and clarions mute, An army passes in the night;And beaming spears and helms salute The dark with bright.In silence ...
“Formerly A Slave” (Herman Melville Poems)
The sufferance of her race is shown, And retrospect of life,Which now too late deliverance dawns upon; Yet is she not at ...
Monody (Herman Melville Poems)
To have known him, to have loved him After loneness long;And then to be estranged in life, And neither in the wrong;And ...