Poet

Herman Melville

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• 1 P. M.
• 3 P. M.
• A Canticle: Significant of the national exaltation of enthusiasm at the close of the War.
• A Dirge for McPherson,
• A Dirge for McPherson,[13] Killed in front of Atlanta.
• A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia.
• A Meditation
• A Requiem
• A Utilitarian View Of The _Monitor’S_ Fight
• Abrupt the supernatural Cross...
• An Epitaph.
• An Uninscribed Monument
• Apathy and Enthusiasm.
• Art
• At the Cannon's Mouth.
• Aurora Borealis
• Ball’S Bluff
• Battle of Stone River, Tennessee.
• BRIDEGROOM DICK
• Canto 1 (A DOWN THE Dolorosa Lane…)
• Canto 1 (IN CHAMBER low and scored by…)
• Canto 1 (OF OLD, if legend truth aver…)
• Canto 1 (WHAT REVERIES be in yonder heaven…)
• Canto 10 ('Tis Kedron, that profound ravine…)
• Canto 10 (Days fleet. They rove the storied…)
• Canto 10 (In divers ways which vary it…)
• Canto 10 (Wise Derwent, that discourse to end…)
• Canto 11 ("Life is not by square and…)
• Canto 11 (At breakfast in refectory there…)
• Canto 11 (Tho' frequent in the Arabian waste…)
• Canto 11 (Well for the student, might it…)
• Canto 12 (But ere they meet in place…)
• Canto 12 (But ere those Sinbads had begun…)
• Canto 12 (Infer the wilds which next pertain…)
• Canto 12 (Marking the priest not all sedate…)
• Canto 13 ("King, who betwixt the cross and…)
• Canto 13 ("The chalice tall of beaten gold…)
• Canto 13 (Blue-lights sent up by ship forlorn…)
• Canto 13 (They rise, and for a little…)
• Canto 14 ("Bless that good chaplain," Derwent here…)
• Canto 14 (Fervid he spake. And Ungar there…)
• Canto 14 (If Savonarola's zeal devout…)
• Canto 14 (Jerusalem, the mountain town…)
• Canto 15 ("Lo, shoot the spikes above the…)
• Canto 15 (It brake, it brake how long…)
• Canto 15 (Meanwhile with Vine there, Clarel stood…)
• Canto 15 (The roller upon Borneo's strand…)
• Canto 16 ("There's politesse! we're left behind…)
• Canto 16 (Beneath the toppled ruins old…)
• Canto 16 (Look how a pine in luckless…)
• Canto 16 (To branching grottoes next they fare…)
• Canto 17 ("Fine, very fine," said Derwent light…)
• Canto 17 (Disturbed by topics canvassed late…)
• Canto 17 (Nathan had sprung from worthy stock…)
• Canto 17 (That day, though to the convent…)
• Canto 18 (At early hour with Rolfe and…)
• Canto 18 (Huge be the buttresses enmassed…)
• Canto 18 (Like sails convened when calms delay…)
• Canto 18 (Pertaining unto nations three…)
• Canto 19 ("Barque, Easter barque, with happier freight…)
• Canto 19 ("Good echoes, echo it! Ho, chant…)
• Canto 19 ('Tis night, with silence, save low…)
• Canto 19 (Such passion!--But have hearts forgot…)
• Canto 2 ("See him in his uncheerful head-piece…)
• Canto 2 (A lamp in archway hangs from…)
• Canto 2 (From vehemence too mad to stem…)
• Canto 2 (Needs well to know the distant…)
• Canto 20 ("Not thou com'st in the still…)
• Canto 20 ("Seedsmen of old Saturn's land…)
• Canto 20 (Beyond the city's thin resort…)
• Canto 20 (From Ur of the Chaldees roved…)
• Canto 21 ("Such earnestness! such wear and tear…)
• Canto 21 (Derwent fetched breath: "A healthy man…)
• Canto 21 (On Salem's surface undermined…)
• Canto 21 (Towers twain crown Saba's mountain hight…)
• Canto 22 (As by the wood drifts thistle-down…)
• Canto 22 (In Saba, as by one consent…)
• Canto 22 (Since, for the charity they knew…)
• Canto 22 (Through such retreats of dubious end…)
• Canto 23 ('Tis travel teaches much that's strange…)
• Canto 23 (Next day the wanderer drawing near…)
• Canto 23 (On the third morn, a misty…)
• Canto 23 (There as they wend, Derwent his…)
• Canto 24 ("Over the river…)
• Canto 24 (And do the clear sands pure…)
• Canto 24 (But Clarel, bides he still by…)
• Canto 24 (In the south wall, where low…)
• Canto 25 ("Ah Rome, your tie! may child…)
• Canto 25 (If where, in blocks unbeautified…)
• Canto 25 (Returned to harbor, Derwent sought…)
• Canto 25 (The stone huts face the stony…)
• Canto 26 ("Patcher of the rotten cloth…)
• Canto 26 (Along those ledges, up and down…)
• Canto 26 (As Clarel entered with the guide…)
• Canto 26 (In adolescence thrilled by hope…)
• Canto 27 ("Well may ye gaze! What's good…)
• Canto 27 ("Yes, pat it comes in here…)
• Canto 27 (Days fleet. No vain enticements lure…)
• Canto 27 (While now, to serve the pilgrim…)
• Canto 28 ("See him!--How all your threat he…)
• Canto 28 (Clarel and Ruth--might it but be…)
• Canto 28 (Southward they file. 'Tis Pluto's park…)
• Canto 28 (The Lyonese had joined a train…)
• Canto 29 (Ere yet they win that verge…)
• Canto 29 (It was the day preceding Lent…)
• Canto 29 (Pursued, the mounted robber flies…)
• Canto 29 (The legend round a Grecian urn…)
• Canto 3 ("In waters where no charts avail…)
• Canto 3 ("The Elysium of the Greek was…)
• Canto 3 (In Crete they claimed the tomb…)
• Canto 3 (Sheep-tracks they'd look, at distance seen…)
• Canto 30 ("The City Red in cloud-land lies…)
• Canto 30 (All distant through that afternoon…)
• Canto 30 (And wherefore by the convents be…)
• Canto 30 (Delay!--Shall flute from forth the Gate…)
• Canto 31 ("But who was SHE (if Luke…)
• Canto 31 (The hill above the garden here…)
• Canto 31 (While yet Rolfe's foot in stirrup…)
• Canto 32 (Day passed; and passed a second…)
• Canto 32 (Southward they find a strip at…)
• Canto 32 (That Rama whom the Indian sung…)
• Canto 32 (The gray of dawn. A tremor…)
• Canto 33 (BUT ON THE THIRD DAY CHRIST…)
• Canto 33 (Over against the Temple here…)
• Canto 33 (Roving along the winding verge…)
• Canto 34 ("How solitary on the hill…)
• Canto 34 (Some leading thoroughfares of man…)
• Canto 34 (While now at poise the wings…)
• Canto 35 (In Piranesi's rarer prints…)
• Canto 35 (In spot revered by myriad men…)
• Canto 36 (Full night. The moon has yet…)
• Canto 36 (The tower they win. Some Greeks…)
• Canto 37 (Credit the Arab wizard lean…)
• Canto 37 (Not knowing them in very heart…)
• Canto 38 (After the hint by Rolfe bestowed…)
• Canto 38 (Now Nehemiah with wistful heart…)
• Canto 39 (In northern clime how tender show…)
• Canto 39 (The camel's skull upon the beach…)
• Canto 4 ("Noble gods at the board…)
• Canto 4 ("Our friend there--he's a little queer…)
• Canto 4 (Quiet Agath, with a start, just…)
• Canto 4 (When sighting first the towers afar…)
• Canto 40 (Ere twilight and the shadow fall…)
• Canto 41 (They parted in the port. Near…)
• Canto 42 (Some of the strangers late arrived…)
• Canto 43 (But what!--nay, nay: without adieu…)
• Canto 44 (The twilight and the starlight pass…)
• Canto 5 (Now slanting toward the mountain's head…)
• Canto 5 (Upon the morrow's early morn…)
• Canto 5 (Where silence and the legend dwell…)
• Canto 5 (While Agath was his story telling…)
• Canto 6 (At night upon the darkling main…)
• Canto 6 (He turned to go; he turned,…)
• Canto 6 (In silence now they pensive win…)
• Canto 6 (Over uplands now toward eve they…)
• Canto 7 ("ELOI LAMA SABACHTHANI…)
• Canto 7 (As shipwrecked men adrift, whose boat…)
• Canto 7 (Descending by the mountain side…)
• Canto 7 (In street at hand a silence…)
• Canto 8 (Sinner?—So spake the saint, a man…)
• Canto 8 (They climb. In Indian file they…)
• Canto 8 (They journey. And, as heretofore…)
• Canto 8 (When rule and era passed away…)
• Canto 9 ("Nay, take it, friend in Christ,"…)
• Canto 9 ("Up, up! Around morn's standard rally…)
• Canto 9 (In order meet they take their…)
• Canto 9 (The lake ink-black mid slopes of…)
• Chapter 30
• Chapter L
• Chapter LII
• Chattanooga
• Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!
• Commemorative Of A Naval Victory
• Crossing The Tropics
• Dirge
• Dirge
• Donelson.
• Dupont's Round Fight.
• Epilogue
• Events unfold...
• Far Off-Shore
• From The Conflict Of Convictions
• Gettysburg.
• GLORIOUS VICTORY OF THE FLEET!
• Gold
• Herba Santa
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• In The Prison Pen
• In the Turret.
• Inscription
• Inscription for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.