Poem by Herman Melville

Lines Traced under an Image of Amor Threatening

Fear me, virgin whosoever
Taking pride from love exempt,
  Fear me, slighted. Never, never
Brave me, nor my fury tempt:
Downy wings, but wroth they beat
Tempest even in reason's seat.

1. The Enviable Isles
2. Old Counsel
3. The Night March
4. To the Master of the Meteor
5. Far Off-Shore

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