Poems by Herman Melville

I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand
I saw a Banner in gladsome air--
Starry, like Bereni...

In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulse...

Commemorative of the Dissolution of Armies at the Peace --May, 1865 What power disbands the Nor...

A Reverie --October, 1861 One noonday, at my window in the town,
I saw a sight--saddest that...

November, 1863 A kindling impulse seized the host
Inspired by heaven's elastic air;
Their he...

An idealized portrait by E. Vedder in the Spring Exhibition of the National Academy, 1865 The s...

About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish,...

Ending in the First Manassas
--July, 1861 Did all the lets and bars appear
To every just or l...

Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville
--May, 1863 The Man who fiercest charged in fight,
Whos...

Supposed to have been suggested to an Englishman of the old order by the fight of the Monitor and...