Collected poems of Herman Melville

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

BATTLE-PIECES

THE PORTENT

MISGIVINGS

THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS

APATHY AND ENTHUSIASM

THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA

A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT

SHILOH

THE BATTLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI

MALVERN HILL

THE VICTOR OF ANTIETAM

BATTLE OF STONE RIVER, TENNESSEE

RUNNING THE BATTERIES

THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS

(1863–4)

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

A CANTICLE:

THE MARTYR

“THE COMING STORM”

REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH

THE MUSTER

AURORA-BOREALIS

THE RELEASED REBEL PRISONER

A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA

“FORMERLY A SLAVE”

THE APPARITION

MAGNANIMITY BAFFLED

ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS

AMERICA

VERSES INSCRIPTIVE AND MEMORIAL

ON THE HOME GUARDS

INSCRIPTION

THE FORTITUDE OF THE NORTH

ON THE MEN OF MAINE

AN EPITAPH

INSCRIPTION

THE MOUND BY THE LAKE

ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA

AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT

ON SHERMAN'S MEN

ON THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER KILLED IN THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA

A REQUIEM

ON A NATURAL MONUMENT

COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY

PRESENTATION TO THE AUTHORITIES

THE RETURNED VOLUNTEER TO HIS RIFLE

THE SCOUT TOWARD ALDIE

LEE IN THE CAPITOL

A MEDITATION

JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS

TO THE MASTER OF THE “METEOR”

FAR OFF-SHORE

THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK

THE FIGURE-HEAD

THE GOOD CRAFT “SNOW-BIRD”

[I Though the Clerk of the Weather insist]

[II Old are the creeds, but stale the schools]

[III In hollows of the liquid hills]

[IV On ocean where the embattled fleets repair]

[V Implacable I, the old implacable Sea]

[VI Curled in the comb of yon billow Andean]

[VII Healed of my hurt, I laud the inhuman Sea]

TIMOLEON

AFTER THE PLEASURE PARTY

THE NIGHT-MARCH

THE RAVAGED VILLA

THE MARGRAVE'S BIRTHNIGHT

MAGIAN WINE

THE GARDEN OF METRODORUS

THE NEW ZEALOT TO THE SUN

FRAGMENTS OF A LOST GNOSTIC POEM OF THE 12th CENTURY

THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS

THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES

HERBA SANTA

FRUIT OF TRAVEL LONG AGO

I SEEN ALOFT FROM AFAR

DISINTERMENT OF THE HERMES

WEEDS AND WILDINGS WITH A ROSE OR TWO

PART I THE YEAR

THE LOITERER

WHEN FORTH THE SHEPHERD LEADS THE FLOCK

THE LITTLE GOOD FELLOWS

THE LOVER AND THE SYRINGA BUSH

THE DAIRYMAN'S CHILD

TROPHIES OF PEACE

IN THE PAUPER'S TURNIP-FIELD

STOCKINGS IN THE FARM-HOUSE CHIMNEY

A DUTCH CHRISTMAS UP THE HUDSON IN THE TIME OF PATROONS

PART II THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER

TIME'S BETRAYAL

PROFUNDITY AND LEVITY

THE AMERICAN ALOE ON EXHIBITION

A GROUND VINE

PART III RIP VAN WINKLE'S LILAC

RIP VAN WINKLE'S LILAC

THE DEVOTION OF THE FLOWERS TO THEIR LADY

NAPLES IN THE TIME OF BOMBA as told by Major Jack Gentian

THE WISE VIRGINS TO MADAM MIRROR

THE NEW ANCIENT OF DAYS

THE RUSTY MAN

THY AIM, THY AIM?

THE OLD SHIPMASTER AND HIS CRAZY BARN

CAMOENS

Camoens In The Hospital

MONTAIGNE AND HIS KITTEN

FALSTAFF'S LAMENT OVER PRINCE HAL BECOME HENRY V

SHADOW AT THE FEAST

MRS. B---

MERRY DITTY OF THE SAD MAN

HONOR

FRUIT AND FLOWER PAINTER

THE MEDALLION

TIME'S LONG AGO!

IN THE HALL OF MARBLES

GOLD IN THE MOUNTAIN

IN THE JOVIAL AGE OF OLD

A SPIRIT APPEARED TO ME

GIVE ME THE NERVE

MY JACKET OLD

IN THE OLD FARM-HOUSE

TO ---

A BATTLE PICTURE

OLD AGE IN HIS AILING

HEARTS-OF-GOLD

PONTOOSUCE

UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS

EPISTLE TO DANIEL SHEPHERD

INSCRIPTION

THE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE

TO TOM

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

PUZZLEMENT

THE CONTINENTS

THE DUST-LAYERS

A RAIL ROAD CUTTING NEAR ALEXANDRIA IN 1855

A REASONABLE CONSTITUTION

POEMS FROM THE NOVELS

FULL ROUND, FULL SOFT, HER DEWY ARMS

A RAY OF THE MOON

SONG OF ARMS

QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!

DEPARTED THE PRIDE, AND THE GLORY OF MARDI

HER BOWER IS NOT OF THE VINE

HER SWEET, SWEET MOUTH!

GOLD-HUNTERS

HALF-VEILED ABOVE THE HILLS, YET ROSY BRIGHT

MAD SONG

THE ISLES HOLD THEE NOT, THOU DEPARTED!

PADDLER'S SONG

HAIL! VOYAGERS, HAIL!

From Moby-Dick

JONAH'S SONG

WE'LL DRINK TO-NIGHT

From “Under the Rose”

“SPECKS, TINY SPECKS”

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[IV On ocean where the embattled fleets repair]

On ocean where the embattled fleets repair,
Man, suffering inflictor, sails on sufferance there.

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[IV On ocean where the embattled fleets repair]