Selected poems of Herman Melville

From battle-pieces and aspects of the war

The portent

Misgivings

The conflict of convictions

The march into Virginia

Ball's bluff

Dupont's round fight

The stone fleet

Donelson

The Temeraire

A utilitarian view of the monitor's fight

Shiloh

Malvern Hill

Battle of Stone River, Tennessee

The house-top

The armies of the wilderness

On the photograph of a corps commander

The swamp angel

The college colonel

"The coming storm"

"Formerly a slave"

On the slain collegians

America

The fortitude of the north

Inscription

An uninscribed monument

A requiem

On a natural monument

Commemorative of a naval victory

The scout toward Aldie

Lee in the capitol

A meditation

Supplement

From Clarel

I: Jerusalem

I: The hostel

II: Of the crusaders

XVII: Nathan

II: The wilderness

IV: Of Mortmain

XXII: Concerning Hebrews

XXVII: Vine and Clarel

XXII: The inscription

XXXIV: Mortmain reappears

XXXVI: Sodom

XXXIX: Obsequies

III: Mar saba

V: The high desert

IV: Bethlehem

XX: Derwent and Ungar

XXX: The valley of decision

XXXI: Dirge

XXXII: Passion week

XXXIII: Easter

XXXIV: Via crucis

XXV: Epilogue

From John Marr and other stories with some sea-pieces

John Marr

Bridegroom Dick

Tom Deadlight

Jack Roy

The Haglets

The man-of-war hawk

Old counsel

The tuft of Kelp

The maldive shark

To Ned

Crossing the tropics

The berg

From pebbles

From Timoleon, etc.

After the pleasure party

The ravaged villa

Monody

Art

Venice

In a bye-canal

In a church of Padua

From the Parthenon

From uncollected poems

Immolated

Pontoosuce

Jonah's song (from Moby Dick)

Billy in the Darbies (from Billy Budd).