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John Marr and Other Poems
Herman Melville
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The Black Cockade and the staunch True-Blue.
Doff hats to Decatur! But where is his blazon?
Must merited fame endure time's wrong—
Glory's ripe grape wizen up to a raisin?
Yes! for Nature teems, and the years are
strong,
And who can keep the tally o' the names that
fleet along!
But his frigate, wife, his bride? Would
blacksmiths brown
Into smithereens smite the solid old renown?
Rivetting the bolts in the iron-clad's shell,
Hark to the hammers with a rat-tat-tat;
"Handier a derby than a laced cocked hat!
The Monitor was ugly, but she served us right
well,
Better than the Cumberland, a beauty and the
belle."
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Community Reviews
John Marr may be one of the most devastating things Melville ever wrote, and the epistle that begins the book is striking if you know the publishing history of Moby Dick. The rest of the poems are alright.
I always struggle with poetry. I can either read it as a lyric and get the rhyming and rhythm down so it sounds good, but I miss some meaning. I can read it for meaning alone and miss the musicality of it. I think I need to always read poetry 2 or 3 times to be able to get both meaning and the corre
I didn't care much for the longer pieces, the dialect infused into the poems, or the loose meter in a lot of it. However, I really enjoyed the short lyrical poems; I'd have read more of that sort. It's obvious Melville is quite capable of metrical proficiency, so it's curious that he did so poorly (