Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · Moby-Dick, Extracts · block 126
“A mariner sat in the shrouds one night,The wind was piping free;Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale,And the phospher gleamed in the wake of the whale,As it floundered in the sea.”Read in context ›
Herman Melville · 1851
Project Gutenberg #15, credited to Eugene F. Irey; updated 10 June 2026. Based on the first American edition, Harper & Brothers, 1851, according to the source catalog.
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