Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CONTINENTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE


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First Line: From bright stamboul death crosses o'er
Last Line: To meet -- infold!
Subject(s): Turkey


From bright Stamboul Death crosses o'er;
Beneath the cypress evermore
His camp he pitches by the shore
Of Asia old.

Requiting this unsocial mood
Stamboul's inmyrtled multitude
Bless Allah and the sherbert good
And Europe hold.

Even so the cleaving Bosphorous parts
Life and Death. -- Dissembling hearts!
Over the gulf the yearning starts
To meet -- infold!





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