Herman Melville
Poems (6)
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An Uninscribed Monument on One of the Battle-Fields of the Wilderness
Silence and Solitude may hint / (Whose home is in yon piny wood) … -
Crossing the Tropics
While now the Pole Star sinks from sight / The Southern Cross it climbs the sky; … -
Memorials
Happy are they and charmed in life / Who through long wars arrive unscarred … -
The College Colonel
He rides at their head; / A crutch by his saddle just slants in view, … -
The Eagle of the Blue
Aloft he guards the starry folds / Who is the brother of the star; … -
The Enviable Isles
Through storms you reach them and from storms are free. / Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue, …