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by Herman Melville


  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<
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  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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