Starbuck: Accepting Death - a character in Melville's Masterpiece Novel MOBY_DICK

 Starbuck: Accepting Death (POEM :

The Struck Leviathan : Poems on Moby Dick

by John Bennett (1970: Univ. of Missouri Press)

page 61)

High in their shaken tower

the bells remembered God:

through the white clouds at Bedford

they sent His Name abroad

in my last last October

when leaves came twisting down

to lie in drift and bumble

upon the Sunday town.

Here in its yelping power

the wind grips ship and sail:

all other noise grows noiseless,

all distant towers fail

while teeth-tiered sharks glide lower

to taste the choking doom

where speechless God has entered

my last enormous room.