CHAPTER XLV. The Cosmopolitan increases in seriousness.

BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR. By Herman Melville. 1866 CONTENTS Misgivings The Conflict of Convictions Apathy and Enthusiasm The March into Virginia Lyon Ball's Bluff Dupont's Round Fight The Stone Fleet Donelson The Cumberland In the Turret The Temeraire A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight Shiloh The Battle for the Mississipppi Malvern Hill The Victor of Antietam Battle of Stone River Running the Batteries Stonewall Jackson Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian) Gettysburg The House-top Look-out Mountain Chattanooga The Armies of the Wilderness On the Photograph of a Corps Commander The Swamp Angel The Battle for the Bay Sheridan at Cedar Creek In the Prison Pen The College Colonel The Eagle of the Blue A Dirge for McPherson At the Cannon's Mouth The March to the Sea The Frenzy in the Wake The Fall of Richmond The Surrender at Appomattox A Canticle The Martyr "The Coming Storm" Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh The Muster Aurora-Borealis The Released Rebel Prisoner A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia "Formerly a Slave." The Apparition Magnanimity Baffled On the Slain Collegians America Verses Inscriptive and Memorial On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri Inscription for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas The Fortitude of the North Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana An Epitaph Inscription for Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg The Mound by the Lake On the Slain at Chickamauga An uninscribed Monument on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness On Sherman's Men Who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia On the Grave of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia A Requiem for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports On a natural Monument in a field of Georgia Commemorative of a Naval Victory Presentation to the Authorities, by Privates, of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle Lee in the Capitol A Meditation

JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS By Herman Melville With An Introductory Note By HENRY CHAPIN MCMXXII

CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY NOTE JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS BRIDEGROOM DICK TOM DEADLIGHT JACK ROY SEA PIECES THE HAGLETS THE AEOLIAN HARP TO THE MASTER OF THE METEOR FAR OFF-SHORE THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK THE FIGURE-HEAD THE GOOD CRAFT SNOW BIRD OLD COUNSEL THE TUFT OF KELP THE MALDIVE SHARK TO NED CROSSING THE TROPICS THE BERG THE ENVIABLE ISLES PEBBLES LINES TRACED UNDER AN IMAGE OF AMOR THREATENING THE NIGHT MARCH THE RAVAGED VILLA THE NEW ZEALOT TO THE SUN MONODY LONE FOUNTS THE BENCH OF BOORS ART THE ENTHUSIAST SHELLEY'S VISION THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES HERBA SANTA OFF CAPE COLONNA THE APPARITION SUPPLEMENT THE PORTENT FROM THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA BALL'S BLUFF THE STONE FLEET THE TEMERAIRE MALVERN HILL STONEWALL JACKSON THE HOUSE-TOP CHATTANOOGA ON THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A CORPS COMMANDER THE SWAMP ANGEL SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK IN THE PRISON PEN THE COLLEGE COLONEL THE MARTYR REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH AURORA BOREALIS THE RELEASED REBEL PRISONER ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS AMERICA INSCRIPTION THE FORTITUDE OF THE NORTH THE MOUND BY THE LAKE ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT ON THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY WE FISH INVOCATION DIRGE MARLENA PIPE SONG SONG OF YOOMY GOLD THE LAND OF LOVE DIRGE EPILOGUE

THE PIAZZA TALES By Herman Melville 1856

CONTENTS Contents THE PIAZZA BARTLEBY BENITO CERENO THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN THE ENCANTADAS THE BELL-TOWER Notes

THE APPLE-TREE TABLE AND OTHER SKETCHES

By Herman Melville

CONTENTS

THE APPLE-TREE TABLE HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES JIMMY ROSE I AND MY CHIMNEY THE PARADISE OF BACHELORS AND THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! THE FIDDLER POOR MAN’S PUDDING AND RICH MAN’S CRUMBS THE HAPPY FAILURE THE ’GEES