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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UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS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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Collected poems of Herman Melville
A RAY OF THE MOON
A ray of the moon on the dancing waves
Is the step, light step of that beautiful maid:
Mardi, with music, her footfall paves,
And her voice, no voice, but a song in the glade.
Collected poems of Herman Melville