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Collected poems of Herman Melville
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
BATTLE-PIECES
JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS
JOHN MARR
BRIDEGROOM DICK
TOM DEADLIGHT
JACK ROY
THE HAGLETS
THE AEOLIAN HARP
MINOR SEA PIECES
PEBBLES
1.
[I Though the Clerk of the Weather insist]
2.
[II Old are the creeds, but stale the schools]
3.
[III In hollows of the liquid hills]
4.
[IV On ocean where the embattled fleets repair]
5.
[V Implacable I, the old implacable Sea]
6.
[VI Curled in the comb of yon billow Andean]
7.
[VII Healed of my hurt, I laud the inhuman Sea]
TIMOLEON
WEEDS AND WILDINGS WITH A ROSE OR TWO
A ROSE OR TWO
MARQUIS DE GRANDVIN
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS
POEMS FROM THE NOVELS
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LIKE THE FISH
Like the fish of the bright and twittering fin,
Bright fish! diving deep as high soars the lark,
So, far, far, far, doth the maiden swim,
Wild song, wild light, in still ocean's dark.
Collected poems of Herman Melville