The Fortitude Of The North (Herman Melville Poems)
_Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas_They take no shame for dark defeat While prizing yet each victory won,Who fight for ...
Herman Melville Poems (92 Poems)
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 ...
Pipe Song (Herman Melville Poems)
Care is all stuff:-- Puff! Puff!To puff is enough:-- Puff! PuffMore musky than snuff,And warm is a puff:-- Puff! PuffHere we sit mid ...
Shelley’s Vision (Herman Melville Poems)
Wandering late by morning seas When my heart with pain was low--Hate the censor pelted me-- Deject I saw my shadow go.In ...
Off Cape Colonna (Herman Melville Poems)
Aloof they crown the foreland lone, From aloft they loftier rise--Fair columns, in the aureole rolled From sunned Greek seas and skies.They ...
To The Master Of The _Meteor_ (Herman Melville Poems)
Lonesome on earth's loneliest deep,Sailor! who dost thy vigil keep--Off the Cape of Storms dost musing sweepOver monstrous waves that ...
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 ...
The Man-O-War Hawk (Herman Melville Poems)
Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the lightO'er the black ship's white sky-s'l, sunned cloud to the sight,Have we low-flyers wings to ...
The Marchioness Of Brinvilliers (Herman Melville Poems)
He toned the sprightly beam of morning With twilight meek of tender eve,Brightness interfused with softness, Light and shade did weave:And gave ...
The Ravaged Villa (Herman Melville Poems)
In shards the sylvan vases lie, Their links of dance undone,And brambles wither by thy brim, Choked fountain of the sun!The spider ...
Fragments Of A Lost Gnostic Poem Of The Twelfth Century (Herman Melville Poems)
Found a family, build a state,The pledged event is still the same:Matter in end will never abateHis ancient brutal claim.Indolence ...
Far Off-Shore (Herman Melville Poems)
Look, the raft, a signal flying, Thin--a shred;None upon the lashed spars lying, Quick or dead.Cries the sea-fowl, hovering over, "Crew, the crew?"And ...
Old Counsel (Herman Melville Poems)
_Of The Young Master of a Wrecked California Clipper_Come out of the Golden Gate, Go round the Horn with streamers,Carry royals ...
On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia (Herman Melville Poems)
Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends-- Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had heWhom here low violets veil from eyes. But ...
Lines Traced Under An Image Of Amor Threatening (Herman Melville Poems)
Fear me, virgin whosoeverTaking pride from love exempt, Fear me, slighted. Never, neverBrave me, nor my fury tempt:Downy wings, but wroth ...
The Tuft Of Kelp (Herman Melville Poems)
All dripping in tangles green, Cast up by a lonely seaIf purer for that, O Weed, Bitterer, too, are ye? (Herman Melville)
Greek Architecture (Herman Melville Poems)
Not magnitude, not lavishness,But Form-the Site;Not innovating wilfulness,But reverence for the Archetype. (Herman Melville)
The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville Poems)
About the Shark, phlegmatical one, Pale sot of the Maldive sea, The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, How alert ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Mound by the Lake (Herman Melville Poems)
The grass shall never forget this grave. When homeward footing it in the sun After the weary ride by rail, ...
Shiloh (Herman Melville Poems)
A Requiem Skimming lightly, wheeling still, The swallows fly low Over the fields in cloudy days, The forest-field of Shiloh ...
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- ...
Gettysburg (Herman Melville Poems)
O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of ...
The Enthusiast (Herman Melville Poems)
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him" Shall hearts that beat no base retreat In youth's magnanimous ...
Chattanooga (Herman Melville Poems)
(November, 1863) A kindling impulse seized the host Inspired by heaven's elastic air; Their hearts outran their General's plan, Though ...
Malvern Hill (Herman Melville Poems)
Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill In prime of morn and May, Recall ye how McClellan's men Here stood ...
Immolated (Herman Melville Poems)
Children of my happier prime, When One yet lived with me, and threw Her rainbow over life and time, Even ...
Falstaff’s Lament Over Prince Hal Become Henry V (Herman Melville Poems)
One that I cherished, Yea, loved as a son - Up early, up late with, My promising one: No use ...
Gold in the Mountain (Herman Melville Poems)
Gold in the mountain, And gold in the glen, And greed in the heart, Heaven having no part, And unsatisfied ...