In the Prison Pen
Herman Melville * Track #0 On Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Listless he eyes the palisades
And sentries in the glare;
’Tis barren as a pelican-beach—
But his world is ended there.
Nothing to do; and vacant hands
Bring on the idiot-pain;
He tries to think—to recollect,
But the blur is on his brain.
Around him swarm the plaining ghosts
Like those on Virgil’s shore—
A wilderness of faces dim,
And pale ones gashed and hoar.
A smiting sun. No shed, no tree;
He totters to his lair—
A den that sick hands dug in earth
Ere famine wasted there,
Or, dropping in his place, he swoons,
Walled in by throngs that press,
Till forth from the throngs they bear him dead—
Dead in his meagerness.
In the Prison Pen Q&A
Who wrote In the Prison Pen's ?
In the Prison Pen was written by Herman Melville.
When did Herman Melville release In the Prison Pen?
Herman Melville released In the Prison Pen on Fri Aug 17 1866.