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Poems of Sidney Lanier.
[Sidney Lanier; (Amer.) Georgian poet and scholar. 1842-1881.]
Etext by A. Light, alight@mercury.interpath.net
Special thanks to Oliver Darmstaedter, Wiebke Schuck, and Thomas Schaich for their help deciphering the old German font used for the poem (in German), `An Frau Nannette Falk-Auerbach'.
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[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalized, if the italics were used for emphasis, or put in quotation marks, if the italics indicated a quotation. In one case,?an italicized and indented paragraph has been indented 10 spaces to set it apart. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces.]
Poems of Sidney Lanier.
Edited by his wife (Mary D. Lanier)
With a Memorial by William Hayes Ward.
? "Go, trembling song, And stay not long; oh stay not long; Thou'rt only a gray and sober dove, But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love."
Contents.
Memorial.
Hymns of the Marshes.
I. Sunrise.
(published December, 1882.)?II. Individuality.
(published January, 1882.)?III. Marsh Song -- At Sunset.
(published February, 1882.)?IV. The Marshes of Glynn.
(published 1879.)
Clover.?(published 1876.)
The Waving of the Corn.?(1877.)
The Song of the Chattahoochee.?(1877.)
From the Flats.?(1877.)
The Mocking-Bird.?(August, 1877.)
Tampa Robins.?(1877.)
The Crystal.?(1880.)
The Revenge of Hamish.?(1878.)
To Bayard Taylor.?(March, 1879.)
A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman.?(`Earliest Collected Poems', 1876.)
To Charlotte Cushman.?(March, 1876.)
The Stirrup-Cup.?(1877.)
A Song of Eternity in Time.?(1880.)
Owl against Robin.?(August, 1880.)
A Song of the Future.?(1877-78.)
Opposition.?(1879-80.)
Rose-Morals.?(May, 1876.)
Corn.?(February, 1875.)
The Symphony.?(June, 1875.)
My Springs.?(October, 1882.)
In Absence.?(September, 1875.)
Acknowledgment.?(November, 1876.)
Laus Mariae.?(1876.)
Special Pleading.?(January, 1876.)
The Bee.?(October, 1877.)
The Harlequin of Dreams.?(April, 1878.)
Street Cries.
I. Remonstrance.
(April, 1883.)?II. The Ship of Earth.?III. How Love Looked for Hell.
(March, 1884.)?IV. Tyranny.
(February, 1868.)?V. Life and Song.
(September, 1868.)?VI. To Richard Wagner.
(November, 1877.)?VII. A Song of Love.
(January, 1884.)
To Beethoven.?(March, 1877.)
An Frau Nannette Falk-Auerbach.?(1878.)
To Nannette Falk-Auerbach.?(1878.)
To Our Mocking-Bird.?(1878.)
The Dove.?(May, 1878.)
To ----, with a Rose.?(December, 1876.)
On Huntingdon's "Miranda".?(1874.)
Ode to the Johns Hopkins University.?(1880.)
To Dr. Thomas Shearer.
Martha Washington.?(1876.)
Psalm of the West.?(June, 1876.)
At First. To Charlotte Cushman.?(1883.)
A Ballad of Trees and the Master.?(1880-81.)
A Florida Sunday.?(1877.)
To My Class: On Certain Fruits and Flowers Sent Me in Sickness. (October, 1884.)
On Violet's Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill.?(October, 1884.)
Ireland.?(1880.)
Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut.?(1877-78.)
An Evening Song.?(January, 1877.)
A Sunrise Song.
On a Palmetto.
Struggle.
Control.
To J. D. H.
Marsh Hymns.
Thou and I.
The Hard Times in Elfland.?(Baltimore, 1877.)
Dialect Poems.
A Florida Ghost.?(1877-78.)
Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn.?(Sidney and Clifford Lanier). (1876.)
"Nine from Eight".?(March, 1884.)
"Thar's more in the Man than thar is in the Land".?(1869.)
Jones's Private Argyment.
The Power of Prayer; or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. (Sidney and Clifford Lanier). (1875-76.)
Unrevised Early Poems.
The Jacquerie. A Fragment.
The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier, September 27, 1868.
Strange Jokes.?(1883.)
Nirvana.?(1871.)
The Raven Days.
Our Hills.
Laughter in the Senate.
Baby Charley.?(January, 1883.)
A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L.?(Sidney and Clifford Lanier). (July, 1871.)
Souls and Rain-Drops.?(1883.)
Nilsson.?(April, 1883.)
Night and Day.?(July, 1884.)
A Birthday Song. To S. G.?(1867.)
Resurrection.?(October, 1868.)
To ----.
The Wedding.?(August, 1884.)
The Palm and the Pine.
Spring Greeting.
The Tournament.?(1867.)
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson.
To Wilhelmina.?(September, 1884.)
Wedding-Hymn.?(August, 1884.)
In the Foam.?(1867.)
Barnacles.?(1867.)
Night.?(May, 1884.)
June Dreams, in January.?(September, 1884.)
Notes to Poems.
The Centennial Meditation of Columbia. 1776-1876. A Cantata.
Note to the Cantata.
Memorial.
Because I believe that Sidney Lanier was much more than a clever artisan in rhyme and metre; because he will, I think, take his final rank with the first princes of American song, I am glad to provide this slight memorial. There is sufficient material in his letters for an extremely interesting biography, which could be properly prepared only by his wife. These pages can give but a sketch of his life and work.
Sidney Lanier was born at Macon, Ga., on the third of February, 1842. His earliest known ancestor of the name was Jerome Lanier,?a Huguenot refugee, who was attached to the court of Queen Elizabeth, very likely as a musical composer; and whose son, Nicholas, was in high favor with James I. and Charles I., as director of music, painter, and political envoy; and whose grandson, Nicholas, held a similar position in the court of Charles II. A portrait of the elder Nicholas Lanier, by his friend Van Dyck, was sold, with other pictures belonging to Charles I., after his execution. The younger Nicholas was the first Marshal, or presiding officer, of the Society of Musicians, incorporated at the Restoration, "for the improvement of the science and the interest of its professors;" and it is remarkable that four others of the name of Lanier were among the few incorporators, one of them, John Lanier, very likely father of the Sir John Lanier who fought as Major-General at the Battle of the Boyne, and fell gloriously at Steinkirk along with the brave Douglas.
The American branch of the family originated as early as 1716 with the immigration of Thomas Lanier, who settled with other colonists on a grant of land ten miles square, which includes the present city of Richmond, Va. One of the family, a Thomas Lanier, married an aunt of George