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Subject: MELVILLE, HERMAN (1819-1891)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT MELVILLE'S TOMB, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Mourning; Sea; Bereavement; Ocean


AT MELVILLE'S TOMB, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
Last Line: Monody shall not wake the mariner. %this fabulous shadow only the sea keeps
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Mourning; Sea


HERMAN MELVILLE, by CONRAD AIKEN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My towers at last!'
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891)


HERMAN MELVILLE, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My towers at last!'
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891)


HERMAN MELVILLE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Towards the end he sailed into an extraordinary mildness
Last Line: And sat down at his desk and wrote a story
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891)


MELVILLE, by LAWRENCE SNYDAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here he comes now, slow, down along the docks
Last Line: As he has learned to lock out ahab, pale %sad sailor and his captive god, the whale
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891)


MELVILLE, by JAMES ULMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: And then I was alone in the berkshires
Last Line: And shifting in the hundred-year-old glass, %the mountain's white hump broke the surface
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891)


MELVILLE'S MARGINALIA, by SUSAN HOWE                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mangan, James Clarence (1803-1849); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets


MELVILLE'S MARGINALIA, by SUSAN HOWE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mangan, James Clarence (1803-1849); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Poetry And Poets


MOBY DICK, by DAVID APPELBAUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe he is white
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Whales


OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula
Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm.
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology)


THE SCRIVENER'S ROSES; FOR MARVIN FISHER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gulls fly in close formation becoming a patch of sail
Last Line: Inside the convent's south garden wall.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Dead, The; Seagulls; Male-female Relations