Poets/Herman Melville

Herman Melville

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The ribs and terrors in the whale, …

Herman Melville

Fear me, virgin whosoever …

Herman Melville

In placid hours well-pleased we dream …

Herman Melville

In time and measure perfect moves …

Herman Melville

Not magnitude, not lavishness, …

Herman Melville

Listless he eyes the palisades …

Herman Melville

Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill …

Herman Melville

When ocean-clouds over inland hills …

Herman Melville

To have known him, to have loved him …

Herman Melville

Shoe the steed with silver …

Herman Melville

Skimming lightly, wheeling still, …

Herman Melville

Convulsions came; and, where the field …

Herman Melville

In bed I muse on Tenier’s boors, …

Herman Melville

I saw a ship of martial build …

Herman Melville

He rides at their head; …

Herman Melville

No sleep. The sultriness pervades the air …

Herman Melville

About the Shark, phlegmatical one, …

Herman Melville

Did all the lets and bars appear …

Herman Melville

Good Friday was the day …

Herman Melville

Hanging from the beam, …

Herman Melville

There is a coal-black Angel …

Herman Melville

Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties,— …

Herman Melville

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