Sea Pieces by Herman Melville

Sea Pieces

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American Literature – American Poetry – Herman Melville – Poems by Herman Melville
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Sea Pieces

The Haglets
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beat
The lichened urns in wilds are lost
About a carved memorial stone … Continue Reading …

The Aeolian Harp
List the harp in window wailing
Stirred by fitful gales from sea:
Shrieking up in mad crescendo— … Continue Reading …

To The Master Of The meteor
Lonesome on earth’s loneliest deep,
Sailor! who dost thy vigil keep—
Off the Cape of Storms dost musing sweep … Continue Reading …

Far Off-Shore
Look, the raft, a signal flying,
Thin—a shred;
None upon the lashed spars lying, … Continue Reading …

The Man-Of-War Hawk
Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light
O’er the black ship’s white sky-s’l, sunned cloud to the sight, … Continue Reading …

The Figure-Head
The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped,
(Named from the carven pair at prow,)
He so smart, and a curly head, … Continue Reading …

The Good Craft snow Bird
Strenuous need that head-wind be
From purposed voyage that drives at last
The ship, sharp-braced and dogged still, … Continue Reading …

Old Counsel
Come out of the Golden Gate,
Go round the Horn with streamers, … Continue Reading …

The Tuft Of Kelp
All dripping in tangles green,
Cast up by a lonely sea … Continue Reading …

The Maldive Shark
About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, … Continue Reading …

To Ned
Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn?
Hollows thereof lay rich in shade
By voyagers old inviolate thrown … Continue Reading …

Crossing The Tropics
While now the Pole Star sinks from sight
The Southern Cross it climbs the sky;
But losing thee, my love, my light, … Continue Reading …

The Berg
I saw a ship of martial build
(Her standards set, her brave apparel on)
Directed as by madness mere … Continue Reading …

The Enviable Isles
Through storms you reach them and from storms are free.
Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,
But, nearer, green; and, on the marge, the sea … Continue Reading …

Pebbles
Though the Clerk of the Weather insist,
And lay down the weather-law,
Pintado and gannet they wist … Continue Reading …

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