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    Herman Melville- Complete Poems

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      Apparition, The [from TIMOLEON], 734

      Archipelago, The, 731

      Armies he’s seen—the herds of war, 87

      Armies of the Wilderness, The, 56

      Arms reversed and banners craped— 73

      Art, 717

      As billows upon billows roll, 80

      A Spirit appeared to me, and said, 893

      A swoon of noon, a trance of tide, 723

      At the Cannon’s Mouth, 74

      At the Hostelry, 804

      Attic Landscape, The, 728

      Aurora-Borealis, 86

      Avatar, The, 759

      A weed grew here.—Exempt from use, 758

      Ay, man is manly. Here you see, 63

      “Ay,—no!—My brain is addled yet, 768

      Ball’s Bluff, 18

      Battle for the Bay, The, 65

      Battle for the Mississippi, The, 39

      Battle of Stone River, Tennessee, 44

      Battle-Picture, A, 867

      BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR, 1

      Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends— 99

      Behind a span whose cheery pace, 833

      Behind the house the upland falls, 705

      Bench of Boors, The, 715

      Beneath yon Larkspur’s azure bells, 749

      Berg, The, 690

      BETHLEHEM [CLAREL, Part Four], 533

      Betimes a wise guest his visit will sever, 752

      Between a garden and old tomb, 788

      Bewrinkled in shingle and lichened in board, 784

      Billy in the Darbies, 867

      Bloom or repute for graft or seed, 759

      Blue-Bird, The, 749

      Bridegroom Dick, 661

      Buccaneer in gemmed attire— 758

      Buddha, 717

      But few they were who came to see, 759

      Butterfly Ditty, 749

      By chapel bare, with walls sea-beat, 677

      By orchards red he whisks along, 751

      C——––—’s Lament, 718

      Camoens, 868

      Candid eyes in open faces, 804

      Canticle, A, 80

      Chattanooga, 54

      Children of my happier prime, 874

      Chipmunk, The, 751

      CLAREL: A POEM AND PILGRIMAGE IN THE HOLY LAND, 153

      Clover, 748

      College Colonel, The, 71

      Come, Shepherd, come and visit me, 895

      Come out of the Golden Gate, 688

      “Coming Storm, The,” 83

      Coming through the rye, 778

      Commemorative of a Naval Victory, 101

      Conflict of Convictions, The, 10

      Continents, The, 869

      Convulsions came; and, where the field, 90

      Crossing the Tropics, 690

      Crow, in pulpit lone and tall, 876

      Crowning a bluff where gleams the lake below, 883

      Cuban Pirate, The, 758

      Cumberland, The, 33

      Dairyman’s Child, The, 750

      Dead of night, dead of night, 873

      Descend, descend! 714

      Devotion of the Flowers to their Lady, The, 775

      Did all the lets and bars appear, 14

      Dirge for McPherson, A, 73

      Disinterment of the Hermes, 734

      Donelson, 20

      Dupont’s Round Fight, 18

      Dust-Layers, The, 870

      Dutch Christmas, A, 754

      Eagle of the Blue, The, 72

      Enthusiast, The, 716

      Enviable Isles, The, 692

      Epitaph, An, 96

      Estranged in site, 729

      Fall of Richmond, The, 79

      Falstaff’s Lament, 870

      Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties,— 674

      Far Off-Shore, 686

      Field Asters, 752

      Figure-Head, The, 686

      Files on files of Prairie Maize, 750

      Fleeing from Scio’s smouldering vines, 732

      “Formerly a Slave,” 89

      Fortitude of the North under the Disaster of the Second Manassas, The, 96

      For years, within a mud-built room, 714

      Found a family, build a state, 719

      Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century, 719

      Frenzy in the Wake, The, 78

      From bright Stamboul Death crosses o’er, 869

      Fruit and Flower Painter, 871

      Garden of Metrodorus, The, 712

      Gems and jewels let them heap— 714

      Gettysburg, 51

      Give me the nerve, 872

      Gold in the mountains, 872

      Good Craft Snow-Bird, The, 687

      Good Friday was the day, 82

      Good of the Chaplain to enter Lone Bay, 867

      Grave near Petersburg, Virginia, A, 89

      Great Pyramid, The, 736

      Greek Architecture, 731

      Greek Masonry, 730

      Ground-Vine, A, 760

      Haglets, The, 677

      Hanging from the beam, 9

      Happy, believe, this Christmas Eve, 753

      Happy are they and charmed in life, 98

      Hard pressed by numbers in his strait, 126

      Head-board and foot-board duly placed— 89

      Hearth-Roses, 773

      Heart of autumn! 751

      Hearts-of-gold, 873

      Herba Santa, 721

      He rides at their head, 71

      He toned the sprightly beam of morning, 719

      Hither, Blanche! Tis you and I, 880

      Honor, 873

      House of the Tragic Poet, 795

      House-top, The, 52

      How lovely was the light of heaven, 718

      How often in the years that close, 132

      How youthful is Ver, 748

      Hymned down the years from ages far, 760

      If genius, turned to sordid ends, 875

      If more than once, as annals tell, 699

      I have a feeling for those ships, 19

      Immolated, 874

      In a Bye-Canal, 723

      In a Church of Padua, 725

      In a Garret, 714

      In a nutshell, 874

      In bed I muse on Teniers’ boors, 715

      In chamber low and scored by time, 161

      Indolence is heaven’s ally here, 719

      In La Mancha he mopeth, 893

      In placid hours well pleased we dream, 717

      Inscription, 758

      Inscription Epistolary to W. C. R., 651

      Inscription for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, 95

      Inscription for Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg, 97

      Inscription For the Dead At Fredericksburgh, 876

      In shards the sylvan vases lie, 710

      In the Desert, 735

      In the Hall of Marbles, 875

      In the jovial age of old, 875

      In the old Farm House, 875

      In the Paupers’ Turnip-Field, 876

      In the Prison Pen, 70

      In the Turret, 34

      In time and measure perfect moves, 18

      In vaulted place where shadows flit, 725

      Iris, 786

      I saw a Ship of martial build, 690

      Jack Roy, 675

      JERUSALEM [CLAREL, Part One], 161

      John Marr, 655

      JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS WITH SOME SEA-PIECES, 647

      Joints were none that mortar sealed, 730

      Kept up by relays of generations young, 675

      Lamia’s Song, 714

      Lee in the Capitol, 126

      L’envoi, 783

      L’ENVOY, 738


      Lesbia’s lover when bereaved, 772

      Let none misgive we died amiss, 95

      Let us all take to singing, 879

      Like a lit-up Christmas Tree, 750

      Like snows the camps on Southern hills, 56

      Like stars in commons blue, 752

      Like stranded ice when freshets die, 894

      Listless he eyes the palisades, 70

      List the harp in window wailing, 684

      Little Good Fellows, The, 747

      Loiterer, The, 745

      Lone Founts, 715

      Lonesome on earth’s loneliest deep, 685

      Look, the raft, a signal flying, 686

      Look-out Mountain, 53

      Lover and the Syringa bush, The, 750

      Lyon, 15

      Madam Mirror, 876

      Madam Mirror, believe we are sorry for you, 877

      Madam Mirror and The Wise Virgins an answer, 876

      Madcaps, 748

      Magian Wine, 712

      Magnanimity Baffled, 90

      Make way, make way, give leave to rove, 747

      Maldive Shark, The, 688

      Malvern Hill, 41

      Man-of-War Hawk, The, 686

      March into Virginia, The, 14

      Marchioness of Brinvilliers, The, 719

      March to the Sea, The, 75

      Margrave’s Birth Night, The, 710

      MAR SABA [CLAREL, Part Three], 415

      Martyr, The, 82

      Medallion, The, 879

      Meditation, A, 132

      Meek crossing of the bosom’s lawn, 771

      Merry Ditty of the Sad Man, 879

      Milan Cathedral, 725

      Misgivings, 9

      Monody, 715

      Montaigne and his Kitten, 880

      Mound by the Lake, The, 97

      Muster, The, 85

      My jacket old, with narrow seam— 881

      My towers at last! These rovings end, 738

      Never Pharoah’s Night, 735

      New Ancient of Days, The, 881

      New Rosicrucians, The, 772

      New Zealot to the Sun, The, 712

      Night-March, The, 709

      No shame they take for dark defeat, 96

      No sleep. The sultriness pervades the air, 52

      Not Kenesaw high-arching, 75

      Not magnitude, not lavishness, 731

      No trophy this—a Stone unhewn, 100

      Now churches are leafy, 785

      Off Cape Colonna, 731

      Of old, if legend truth aver, 533

      Old Age in his ailing, 883

      Old Counsel Of the young Master Of a wrecked California clipper, 688

      Old Fashion, The, 748

      Old Shipmaster and his crazy Barn, The, 784

      O mystery of noble hearts, 65

      On a natural Monument in a field of Georgia, 100

      One man we claim of wrought renown, 49

      One noonday, at my window in the town, 18

      One that I cherished, 870

      On Sherman’s Men who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, 99

      On starry heights, 10

      On the Grave of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia, 99

      On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri, 95

      On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 96

      On the Photograph of a Corps Commander, 63

      On the Slain at Chickamauga, 98

      On the Slain Collegians, 91

      O pride of the days in prime of the months, 51

      O Queen, we are loyal: shall sad ones forget? 776

      O the clammy cold November, 13

      O the precipice Titanic, 80

      Over the ruddy hearth, lo, the green bough! 754

      Over this hearth—my father’s seat— 102

      Palely intent, he urged his keel, 74

      Pardon me, Monsieur, 803

      Parthenon, The, 729

      PARTHENOPE, 789

      Pausilippo, 726

      PEBBLES, 693

      Persian, you rise, 712

      Pisa’s Leaning Tower, 724

      Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, 38

      Plump through tomb and catacomb, 887

      Pontoosuc, 883

      Portent, The, 9

      Preface, 801

      Presentation to the Authorities, by Privates, of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee, 102

      Profundity and Levity, 757

      Proud, O proud in his oaken hall, 865

      Puzzlement, 886

      Rail Road Cutting, A, 887

      Rammon, 888

      Ravaged Villa, The, 710

      Reasonable Constitution, A, 892

      Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh, 84

      Released Rebel Prisoner, The, 87

      Requiem for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports, A, 99

      Restless, restless, craving rest, 867

      Returned Volunteer to his Rifle, The, 102

      Return of the Sire de Nesle, The, 738

      Ring down! The curtain falls, and ye, 904

      Rip Van Winkle’s Lilac, 761

      Rosamond, my Rosamond, 771

      Rosary Beads, 775

      Rose Farmer, The, 778

      Rose Window, 774

      Rosy dawns the morning Syrian, 783

      Running the Batteries, 46

      Rusty Man, The, 893

      Sail before the morning breeze, 731

      Sailors there are of gentlest breed, 101

      Same, The, 729

      Scout toward Aldie, The, 103

      Shadow at the Feast, 785

      Shall hearts that beat no base retreat, 716

      “Sharp words we had before the fight, 90

      She dens in a garret, 871

      Shelley’s Vision, 718

      Sheridan at Cedar Creek, 69

      She will come though she loiter, believe, 745

      Shiloh, 39

      Shoe the steed with silver, 69

      Silence and Solitude may hint, 98

      Since as in night’s deck-watch ye show, 659

      Since seriousness in many a face, 879

      Skimming lightly, wheeling still, 39

      So frolic, so flighty, 757

      Soft as the morning, 750

      Some hearts there are of deeper sort, 15

      Some names there are of telling sound, 33

      Someone, whose morals need mending, 756

      So strong to suffer, shall we be, 78

      “Specks, tiny specks, in this translucent amber, 903

      Stockings in the farm-house Chimney, 753

      Stone Fleet, The, 19

      Stonewall Jackson, 48

      Stonewall Jackson (Ascribed to a Virginian), 49

      Strenuous need that head-wind be, 687

      Suggested by the Ruins, 894

      Summer comes in like a sea, 749

      Sunning ourselves in October on a day, 661

      Surrender at Appomattox, The, 80

      Swamp Angel, The, 64

      Swooning swim to less and less, 717

      Syra, 732

      Take a reef, take a reef, 874

      Temeraire, The, 36

      The Abrahamic river— 85

      The Athenians mark the moss-grown gate, 712

      The bitter cup, 20

      The cavalry-camp lies on the slope, 103

      The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped, 686

      The color-bearers facing death, 84

      The gloomy hulls, in armor grim, 36

      The grass shall never forget this grave, 97

      The June day dawns, the joy-winds rush, 748

     
    ; The man of bone confirms his throne, 881

      The Man who fiercest charged in fight, 48

      The men who here in harness died, 95

      The preacher took from Solomon’s Song, 774

      There is a coal-black Angel, 64

      These flags of armies overthrown— 102

      These roses of divers hues, 899

      The sufferance of her race is shown, 89

      The Sugar-Maple embers in bed, 773

      The Tower in tiers of architraves, 724

      They said that Fame her clarion dropped, 99

      Though fast youth’s glorious fable flies, 715

      Though the Clerk of the Weather insist, 693

      Thou that dost thy Christmas keep, 896

      Three mounted buglers laced in gold, 867

      Through light green haze, a rolling sea, 725

      Through storms you reach them and from storms are free [from JOHN MARR], 692

      Through storms you reach them and from storms are free [from Rammon], 892

      Through the orchard I follow, 748

      Thy aim, thy aim? 894

      Time’s Betrayal, 756

      Time’s Long Ago! 895

      Time’s Long Ago! Nor coral isles, 895

      Timoleon, 699

      TIMOLEON ETC., 695

      To ——––—, 895

      To a Happy Shade, 761

      To Daniel Shepherd, 895

      To have known him, to have loved him, 715

      To Major John Gentian, 824

      Tom Deadlight, 673

      To M. de Grandvin, 803

      To Ned, 689

      To the Master of the Meteor, 685

      To them who crossed the flood, 97

      To Tom, 897

      Tourist, spare the avid glance, 728

      To us, disciples of the Order, 772

      To Winnefred, 743

      Trophies of Peace, 750

      Tuft of Kelp, The, 688

      Twere pity, if true, 873

      Under the golden maples, 761

      Under the Ground, 788

      Under the Rose, 899

      uninscribed Monument on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness, An, 98

      Up from many a sheeted valley, 710

      Upon entering the vestibule, 795

      Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight, A, 38

      Venice, 723

      Vial of Attar, The, 772

      Victor of Antietam, The, 42

      Wandering late by morning seas, 718

      Way-side Weed, A, 751

      Weaver, The, 714

      WEEDS AND WILDINGS CHIEFLY: WITH A ROSE OR TWO, 739

      What forms divine in adamant fair— 734

      What mean these peels from every tower, 79

      What power disbands the Northern Lights, 86

     


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