Of The Young Master of a Wrecked California Clipper


Come out of the Golden Gate,
Go round the Horn with streamers,
Carry royals early and late;
But, brother, be not over-elate-
All hands save ship! has startled dreamers.

(C) Herman Melville
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Herman Melville

• The Age Of The Antonines
• We Fish
• Shiloh - A Requiem
• The Ravaged Villa
• Epilogue
• Dirge
• Lenvoi
• The Man-o-war Hawk
• Gold
• Formerly A Slave
• Malvern Hill
• Old Counsel
• Monody
• A Meditation
• Off Cape Colonna
• Chattanooga
• The Aeolian Harp
• Art
• America
• A Requiem
• Rebel Color-bearers At Shiloh