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The Tuft of Kelp

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville

All dripping in tangles green,
Cast up by a lonely sea,
If purer for that, O Weed,
Bitterer, too, are ye?




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Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you

• Virgil



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  • Henry David Thoreau
    The Evening Wind
    by Henry David Thoreau
    The eastern mail comes lumbering in With outmost waves of Europe's din; The western sighs adown the slope, Or mid the rustling leaves doth grope,