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Collected poems of Herman Melville

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

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THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS

APATHY AND ENTHUSIASM

THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA

DUPONT'S ROUND FIGHT

THE STONE FLEET

A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT

THE BATTLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI

THE VICTOR OF ANTIETAM

BATTLE OF STONE RIVER, TENNESSEE

RUNNING THE BATTERIES

STONEWALL JACKSON

STONEWALL JACKSON

LOOK-OUT MOUNTAIN

THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS

ON THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A CORPS COMMANDER

THE SWAMP ANGEL

THE BATTLE FOR THE BAY

SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK

IN THE PRISON PEN

THE COLLEGE COLONEL

THE EAGLE OF THE BLUE

A DIRGE FOR McPHERSON

AT THE CANNON'S MOUTH

THE MARCH TO THE SEA

THE FRENZY IN THE WAKE

THE FALL OF RICHMOND

THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX

“THE COMING STORM”

REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH

AURORA-BOREALIS

THE RELEASED REBEL PRISONER

A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA

“FORMERLY A SLAVE”

MAGNANIMITY BAFFLED

ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS

VERSES INSCRIPTIVE AND MEMORIAL

JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS

WEEDS AND WILDINGS WITH A ROSE OR TWO

MARQUIS DE GRANDVIN

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS

POEMS FROM THE NOVELS

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SUGGESTED BY THE RUINS OF A MOUNTAIN-TEMPLE IN ARCADIA, ONE BUILT BY THE ARCHITECT OF THE PARTHENON

Like stranded ice when freshets die
These shattered marbles tumbled lie:
They trouble me.

What solace?—Old in inexhaustion,
Interred alive from storms of fortune,
The quarries be!