In "Billy Budd," Bristol Molly is Billy Budd's girlfriend, according to "Billy in the Darbies," a poem written by his shipmate.
"Billy in the Darbies" is a poem that serves as the end to the novella Billy Budd by Herman Melville. The poem is a sympathetic literary recreation of Billy Budd’s last hours in the ship’s hold. With this denouement, the narrator withdraws back into the shadows of the deep, along with Billy Budd.
"Billy Budd, Sailor" is a novella first published posthumously in London in 1924. Melville began writing the work in November 1888, but left it unfinished at his death in 1891.
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