 | Collected poems of Herman Melville |  |
THE WEAVER
For years within a mud-built room
For Arva's shrine he weaves the shawl,
Lone wight, and at a lonely loom,
His busy shadow on the wall.
For Arva's shrine he weaves the shawl,
Lone wight, and at a lonely loom,
His busy shadow on the wall.
The face is pinched, the form is bent,
No pastime knows he nor the wine,
Recluse he lives and abstinent
Who weaves for Arva's shrine.
No pastime knows he nor the wine,
Recluse he lives and abstinent
Who weaves for Arva's shrine.
| Collected poems of Herman Melville | |