Poems by Herman Melville
Far Off-Shore
... Cries the sea-fowl, hovering over, ...
We Fish
... Naught disturbs us, our blood is at zero: ...
The Ravaged Villa
... Makes lime for Mammon's tower ...
The Apparition: A Retrospect
... (Sure the scared sense was all deceived), ...
To Ned
... roam. Nor less the satiate year impends ...
In The Prison Pen
... Walled in by throngs that press, ...
The Haglets
... meet, And, quaffing, dip in wine their beards of ...
Shiloh - A Requiem
... Solaced the parched one stretched in pain ...
Immolated
... Snugged in the arms of comfortable night ...
Sheridan At Cedar Creek
... They've surprised and stormed the post ...
The March Into Viriginia
... All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, ...
Greek Architecture
... But reverence for the Archetype ...
Healed Of My Hurt
... For healed I am even by the pitiless breath ...
"Formerly A Slave"
... And so her reverie takes prophetic cheer-- ...
The Mound By The Lake
... The stripling soldiers passed her door, ...