in Collected Poems of Herman Melville, Chicago 1947. "Epistle to Daniel Shepherd" – first published in Herman Melville: Representative Selections, Willard Thorp, Ed. (New York, 1938). The following were first published in Collected Poems of Herman Melville, Howard P. Vincent Ed. (Chicago 1947): "Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh" [sic] "The Haglets" (an expansion of "The Admiral of the White") "To Tom" "Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-temple in Arcadia" "Puzzlement" "The Continents" "The Dust-Layers" "A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855" "A Reasonable Constitution" "Rammon" "A Ditty of Aristippus" "In a Nutshell" "Adieu" Essays The following essays were uncollected during Melville's lifetime: "Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 1" (Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser, May 4, 1839) "Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 2" (Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser, May 18, 1839) "Etchings of a Whaling Cruise" (New York Literary World, March 6, 1847) "Authentic Anecdotes of 'Old Zack'" (Yankee Doodle, II, excerpted September 4, published in full weekly from July 24 to September 11, 1847) "Mr Parkman's Tour" (New York Literary World, March 31, 1849) "Cooper's New Novel" (New York Literary World, April 28, 1849) "A Thought on Book-Binding" (New York Literary World, March 16, 1850) "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (New York Literary World, August 17 and August 24, 1850) Other Correspondence, Ed. Lynn Horth. Evanston, IL and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library (1993). Journals, Ed. Howard C. Horsford with Lynn Horth. Evanston, IL and Chicago: Northwestern Univ. Pr. and The Newberry Library (1989). References External links The Life and Works of Herman Melville (last revised July 2000) The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville – All of Melville's writings published with extensive notes and commentary A Checklist Of Herman Melville's First and Major Editions Collecting Herman Melville by William S. Reese, 1993 Melville's marginalia A virtual archive of books Melville owned or borrowed and a digital edition of books he marked and annotated. Herman Melville Bibliographies by writer Bibliographies of American writers Poetry bibliographies