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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
A ROSE OR TWO
MARQUIS DE GRANDVIN
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS
POEMS FROM THE NOVELS
From Mardi
WE FISH
SONG OF THE PADDLERS
DRINKING SONG
LIKE THE FISH
ROYAL IS THE ROSE
BE MERRY
SEA BURIAL
THE SONG
INVOCATION
SMOKING SONG
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
From “Under the Rose”
From Piazza Tales
From Billy Budd
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Collected poems of Herman Melville
WE'LL DRINK TO-NIGHT
We'll drink to-night with hearts as light,
To love, as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim,
And break on the lips while meeting.
Collected poems of Herman Melville