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Born in August 1, 1819 / Died in September 28, 1891 / United States / English

Poems by Herman Melville

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Crossing The Tropics

...   Doubling the world's last outpost drear ...

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Tom Deadlight

...   feel; And don't sew me up without _baccy_ in mouth, ...

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Off Cape Colonna

...   From sunned Greek seas and skies ...

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Old Counsel

... _Of The Young Master of a Wrecked California Clipper_ ...

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Dirge

... Or trance her with thy choicest charm ...

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An Uninscribed Monument on One of the Battle-Fields of the Wilderness

...   The after-quiet--the calm full fraught ...

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The Marchioness Of Brinvilliers

...   With twilight meek of tender eve, ...

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On The Photograph Of A Corps Commander

... Down to us come the knightly Norman fires, ...

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The Figure-Head

...   And the hug relaxed with the failing glue ...

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Herba Santa

...   Inhaling Herba Santa in the passive Pipe ...

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Bridegroom Dick

...   dusk. Not sharing in the slant, the clapper of her bell ...

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The Night March

...   (So legends tell) he lonely wends ...

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The Land Of Love

... Full urns, rose-heaped, these valleys bloom ...

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The Swamp Angel

...   By night with the voice of his screaming-- ...

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Rebel Color-Bearers At Shiloh

... _A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civilians ...