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Collected poems of Herman Melville

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

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THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS

APATHY AND ENTHUSIASM

THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA

DUPONT'S ROUND FIGHT

THE STONE FLEET

A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT

THE BATTLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI

THE VICTOR OF ANTIETAM

BATTLE OF STONE RIVER, TENNESSEE

RUNNING THE BATTERIES

STONEWALL JACKSON

STONEWALL JACKSON

LOOK-OUT MOUNTAIN

THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS

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

“THE COMING STORM”

REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH

AURORA-BOREALIS

THE RELEASED REBEL PRISONER

A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA

“FORMERLY A SLAVE”

MAGNANIMITY BAFFLED

ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS

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VERSES INSCRIPTIVE AND MEMORIAL

ON THE HOME GUARDS

THE FORTITUDE OF THE NORTH

ON THE MEN OF MAINE

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

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

JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS

WEEDS AND WILDINGS WITH A ROSE OR TWO

MARQUIS DE GRANDVIN

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS

POEMS FROM THE NOVELS

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

Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends—
Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had he
Whom here low violets veil from eyes.
But all these gifts transcended be:
His happier fortune in this mound you see.