All dripping in tangles green,
Cast up by a lonely sea
If purer for that, O Weed,
Bitterer, too, are ye?

(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