Abstract
Tablets Douglas Storm ReturningI salliedoutuponmy special errandthe skychanged and chargeddrivingly sleetingstubbornly stormingI foughtand foundand entereda reigning silenceof sailors wives and widowscongregationalagainstgriefstormingly shriekinginsularly sittingincommunicablyapart seatedIpretendingly quotingTheysteadfastingly eyeingblack-borderedmasoned [End Page 82] marbledtabletedsacredly wordedmemoriallylost Wesurvivoredoverboardout of sightoff shoreby deepslatelyemplacedunrecordeduntellinglywounded womenwealingwomenwailingwomenweavingwomenweaningwomenunwilling bosoms broodingdesolate uponungreenlyunburiedunfloweredunleaved [End Page 83] undeadabsent ashes ohbitterly blank marblesdespairingly inscribedvoids gnawinglyunbiddenunrisensecondless comingungravenly placed surely-not- featheringunfedhopesunfloateduponunshoredbosomlessdeeps without-meaning same-fate-be-thine bodiless (turned)into (under) better being(un) bodied intonot me [End Page 84] Copyright © 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press and The Melville Society
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
