Poems From Timoleon by Herman Melville

Poems From Timoleon

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American Literature – American Poetry – Herman Melville – Poems by Herman Melville
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Poems From Timoleon

Lines Traced Under An Image Of Amor Threatening
Fear me, virgin whosoever
Taking pride from love exempt, … Continue Reading …

The Night March
With banners furled and clarions mute,
An army passes in the night;
And beaming spears and helms salute … Continue Reading …

The Ravaged Villa
In shards the sylvan vases lie,
Their links of dance undone,
And brambles wither by thy brim, … Continue Reading …

The New Zealot To The Sun
Persian, you rise
Aflame from climes of sacrifice
Where adulators sue, … Continue Reading …

Monody
To have known him, to have loved him
After loneness long;
And then to be estranged in life, … Continue Reading …

Lone Founts
Though fast youth’s glorious fable flies,
View not the world with worldling’s eyes;
Nor turn with weather of the time. … Continue Reading …

The Bench Of Boors
In bed I muse on Tenier’s boors,
Embrowned and beery losels all;
A wakeful brain … Continue Reading …

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

The Enthusiast
Shall hearts that beat no base retreat
In youth’s magnanimous years—
Ignoble hold it, if discreet … Continue Reading …

Shelley’s Vision
Wandering late by morning seas
When my heart with pain was low—
Hate the censor pelted me— … Continue Reading …

The Marchioness Of Brinvilliers
He toned the sprightly beam of morning
With twilight meek of tender eve,
Brightness interfused with softness, … Continue Reading …

The Age Of The Antonines
While faith forecasts millennial years
Spite Europe’s embattled lines,
Back to the Past one glance be cast— … Continue Reading …

Herba Santa
After long wars when comes release
Not olive wands proclaiming peace
Can import dearer share … Continue Reading …

Off Cape Colonna
Aloof they crown the foreland lone,
From aloft they loftier rise—
Fair columns, in the aureole rolled … Continue Reading …

The Apparition
Abrupt the supernatural Cross,
Vivid in startled air,
Smote the Emperor Constantine … Continue Reading …

L’envoi
My towers at last! These rovings end,
Their thirst is slaked in larger dearth:
The yearning infinite recoils, … Continue Reading …

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