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Collected poems of Herman Melville
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
BATTLE-PIECES
JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS
TIMOLEON
WEEDS AND WILDINGS WITH A ROSE OR TWO
1.
PART I THE YEAR
2.
PART II THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
TIME'S BETRAYAL
PROFUNDITY AND LEVITY
INSCRIPTION
THE CUBAN PIRATE
IRIS
THE AVATAR
THE AMERICAN ALOE ON EXHIBITION
A GROUND VINE
3.
PART III RIP VAN WINKLE'S LILAC
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UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS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
OH, BROTHER JACK
Oh Brother Jack, as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I.
Just so game and just so gay,
But now, alack, they've stopped my pay.
No more I peep out of my blinkers,
Here I bee—tucked in with clinkers.
Collected poems of Herman Melville