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A most excellent compilation of Melville's poetry, edited by Dougas Robillard. Includes Battle Pieces, John Marr and Timoleon. Also varied pieces including one I really liked:
Art
In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate:
A flame to melt - a wind to freeze;
Sad patience - joyous energies;
Humility - yet pride and scorn;
Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity - reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel - Art.
Art
In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate:
A flame to melt - a wind to freeze;
Sad patience - joyous energies;
Humility - yet pride and scorn;
Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity - reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel - Art.