MONODY
by: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- O have known
him, to have loved him
- After loneness long;
- And then to be estranged in life,
- And neither in the wrong;
- And now for death to set his seal--
- Ease me, a little ease, my song!
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- By wintry hills his hermit-mound
- The sheeted snow-drifts drape,
- And houseless there the snow-bird flits
- Beneath the fir-trees' crape:
- Glazed now with ice the cloistral vine
- That hid the shyest grape.
"Monody" was originally
published in Timoleon. Herman Melville. Caxton Press,
1891. |
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