 | Collected poems of Herman Melville |  |
THE CUBAN PIRATE
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Some of the more scintillant West Indian humming-birds are in frame hardly bigger than a bettle or bee.
Buccaneer in gemmed attire—
Ruby, amber, emerald, jet—
Darkling, sparkling dot of fire,
Still on plunder are you set?
Ruby, amber, emerald, jet—
Darkling, sparkling dot of fire,
Still on plunder are you set?
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Summer is your sea, and there
The flowers afloat you board and ravage,
Yourself a thing more dazzling fair—
Tiny, plumed, bejewelled Savage!
The flowers afloat you board and ravage,
Yourself a thing more dazzling fair—
Tiny, plumed, bejewelled Savage!
Midget! yet in passion a fell
Furioso, Creoles tell.
Wing'd are you Cupid in disguise
You flying spark of Paradise?
Furioso, Creoles tell.
Wing'd are you Cupid in disguise
You flying spark of Paradise?
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