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Herman Melville

August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Meditation How often in the years that close, 60156
2: A Requiem When, after storms that woodlands rue, 27156
3: A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor's Fight Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, 30150
4: America Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand 49159
5: An Uninscribed Monument Silence and solitude may hint 15182
6: Art In placid hours well-pleased we dream 11145
7: Aurora Borealis What power disbands the Northern Lights 1865 22148
8: Ball's Bluff One noonday, at my window in the town, 1861 22151
9: Bridegroom Dick Sunning ourselves in October on a day 1876 440127
10: Chattanooga A kindling impulse seized the host 1863 62118
11: Commemorative Of A Naval Victory Sailors there are of the gentlest breed, 27107
12: Crossing The Tropics While now the Pole Star sinks from sight 21117
13: Dirge We drop our dead in the sea, 16122
14: Dirge Stay, Death, Not mine the Christus-wand 18123
15: Epilogue Unmoved by all the claims our times avow, 32111
16: Far Off-Shore Look, the raft, a signal flying, 8121
17: Formerly A Slave The sufferance of her race is shown, 12131
18: From The Conflict Of Convictions The Ancient of Days forever is young, 1861 24111
19: Gold We rovers bold, 49137
20: Herba Santa After long wars when comes release 52121
21: In The Prison Pen Listless he eyes the palisades 1864 20134
22: Inscription Let none misgive we died amiss 11124
23: Invocation Ha, ha, gods and kings; fill high, one and all; 20143
24: Jack Roy Kept up by relays of generations young 31125
25: John Marr And Other Sailors Since as in night's deck-watch ye show, 62113
26: L'Envoi My towers at last! These rovings end, 12125
27: Lines Traced Under An Image Of Amor Threatening Fear me, virgin whosoever 6121
28: Lone Founts Though fast youth's glorious fable flies, 9111
29: Malvern Hill Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill 1862 35125
30: Marlena Far off in the sea is Marlena, 23145
31: Monody To have known him, to have loved him 12109
32: Off Cape Colonna Aloof they crown the foreland lone, 10123
33: Old Counsel Come out of the Golden Gate, 5107
34: On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends 5116
35: On The Photograph Of A Corps Commander Ay, man is manly. Here you see 24117
36: On The Slain At Chickamauga Happy are they and charmed in life 15125
37: On The Slain Collegians Youth is the time when hearts are large, 60106
38: Pebbles Though the Clerk of the Weather insist, 33114
39: Pipe Song Care is all stuff: 15135
40: Rebel Color-Bearers At Shiloh The color-bearers facing death 35148
41: Shelley's Vision Wandering late by morning seas 11121
42: Sheridan At Cedar Creek Shoe the steed with silver 1864 40112
43: Song Of Yoomy Departed the pride, and the glory of Mardi: 16120
44: Stonewall Jackson The Man who fiercest charged in fight, 1863 18140
45: The Aeolian Harp List the harp in window wailing 48129
46: The Age Of The Antonines While faith forecasts millennial years 30103
47: The Apparition Abrupt the supernatural Cross, 12191
48: The Bench Of Boors In bed I muse on Tenier's boors, 18121
49: The Berg I SAW a ship of martial build 37100
50: The College Colonel He rides at their head; 31126
51: The Enthusiast Shall hearts that beat no base retreat 24103
52: The Enviable Isles Through storms you reach them and from storms are free. 14119
53: The Figure-Head The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped, 15117
54: The Fortitude Of The North They take no shame for dark defeat 9118
55: The Good Craft Snow Bird Strenuous need that head-wind be 24112
56: The Haglets By chapel bare, with walls sea-beat 25094
57: The House-Top No sleep. The sultriness pervades the air 1863 27106
58: The Land Of Love Hail! voyagers, hail! 25132
59: The Maldive Shark About the Shark, phlegmatical one, 12117
60: The Man-Of-War Hawk Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light 5106
61: The March Into Virginia Did all the lets and bars appear 1861 36130
62: The Marchioness Of Brinvilliers He toned the sprightly beam of morning 8118
63: The Martyr Goon Friday was the day 1865 34109
64: The Mound By The Lake The grass shall never forget this grave. 11121
65: The New Zealot To The Sun Persian, you rise 36106
66: The Night March With banners furled and clarions mute, 12108
67: The Portent Hanging from the beam, 1859 14110
68: The Ravaged Villa In shards the sylvan vases lie, 892
69: The Released Rebel Prisoner Armies he's seen--the herds of war, 1865 40129
70: The Stone Fleet I have a feeling for those ships, 1861 36188
71: The Swamp Angel There is a coal-black Angel 47120
72: The Temeraire The gloomy hulls in armor grim, 63110
73: The Tuft Of Kelp All dripping in tangles green, 4109
74: To Ned Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn? 40130
75: To The Master Of The Meteor Lonesome on earth's loneliest deep, 9112
76: Tom Deadlight Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties, 28106
77: We Fish We fish, we fish, we merrily swim, 26133




About:
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet.


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