Herman Melville

Poems (6)

• 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, …