Explore "The Temeraire (Poems from Battle Pieces)" by Herman Melville on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
"Supposed to have been suggested to an Englishman of the old order by / the fight of the Monitor and Merrimac"
The gloomy hulls in armor grim, / Like clouds o'er moors have met, / And prove that oak, and iron, and man / Are tough in fibre yet.