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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?




Quotes of the Day

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Poems of the Day
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Dæmonic Love
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through veins of kindred poured, Next his heart the fireside band Of mother, father, sister, stand;