Author: Herman Melville

I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice’s Hair- […]

Healed of my hurt, I laud the inhuman Sea Yea, bless the Angels Four that there convene; For healed I […]

“Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him” Shall hearts that beat no base retreat In youth’s magnanimous […]

In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What […]

Children of my happier prime, When One yet lived with me, and threw Her rainbow over life and time, Even […]

Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill In prime of morn and May, Recall ye how McClellan’s men Here stood […]

One that I cherished, Yea, loved as a son – Up early, up late with, My promising one: No use […]

The grass shall never forget this grave. When homeward footing it in the sun After the weary ride by rail, […]

When ocean-clouds over inland hills Sweep storming in late autumn brown, And horror the sodden valley fills, And the spire […]

O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of […]