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Poem by Herman Melville


The Man-of-War-Hawk


     Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in
         the light
     O'er the black ship's white sky-s'l, sunned
         cloud to the sight,
     Have we low-flyers wings to ascend to his
         height?
     No arrow can reach him; nor thought can
         attain
     To the placid supreme in the sweep of his
         reign.



Herman Melville


Herman Melville's other poems:
  1. The College Colonel
  2. Crossing the Tropics
  3. Jack Roy
  4. Lines Traced under an Image of Amor Threatening
  5. Healed of My Hurt


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