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<
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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