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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence and solitude may hint Last Line: Silent as I, and lonesome as the land. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) | |||
SILENCE and Solitude may hint (Whose home is in you piny wood) What I, though tableted, could never tell -- The din which here befell, And striving of the multitude. The iron cones and spheres of death Set round me in their rust, -- These, too, if just, Shall speak with more than animated breath. Thou who beholdest, if thy thought, Not narrowed down to personal cheer, Take in the import of the quiet here -- The after-quiet -- the calm full fraught; Thou too wilt silent stand, -- Silent as I, and lonesome as the land. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by ANDREW HUDGINS LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864] by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS (1863-4) by HERMAN MELVILLE CAN'T by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD OBSEQUIES OF STUART by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by ANDREW HUDGINS |
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