 | Collected poems of Herman Melville |  |
MONODY
To have known him, to have loved himAfter loneness long;
And then to be estranged in life,
And neither in the wrong;
And now for death to set his seal—
Ease me, a little ease, my song!
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The sheeted snow-drifts drape,
And houseless there the snow-bird flits
Beneath the fir-trees' crape:
Glazed now with ice the cloistral vine
That hid the shyest grape.
| Collected poems of Herman Melville | |