Moby Dick
Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker
by Herman Melville
The narrator describes downtime on the ship. The lull in the action does not last for long.
The narrator describes downtime on the ship. The lull in the action does not last for long.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
"October is the treasurer of the year,"
The speaker talks of her homesickness.
"I think that though the clouds be dark,"
A rhyme that serves to tell children to behave through the song of a bird.
The author describes coming upon a slave singing in a prison cell, when a tragedy occurred
"Step me now a bridal measure,"
A poem of liberation
The speaker talks of her grief.
A man of low degree was sore oppressed,
Poem referring to a pro-slavery meeting in Faneuil Hall in August of 1835.
A poem describing the perils our fathers went through to keep their homeland free.
The author gives an account of a runaway slave who escapes his master’s beatings.
The author admires the ocean from Florida's Coast.
A sister searches for her seven lost brothers.
A poem about love using images of acient mythological figures
Cinna the poet is the victim of mistaken identity.
The Florida Landscape changes as sunrise moves to sunset.
A brief history of Hebrew algebra.
Brutus orders his men to retreat before asking a final favor of one of his soldiers. Upon discovering Brutus, Antony speaks of Brutus' virtues and makes a decision in regards to the fate of his men.
In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic’s way,
Having been set free, Gringoire goes to meet Claude Frollo.
Longfellow uses the river as a metaphor for life and friendship.
Clotel escapes from the slave prison.