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Poems of Sidney Lanier.
[Sidney Lanier; (Amer.) Georgian poet and scholar. 1842-1881.]
Etext by A. Light, [email protected]

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'.
Special thanks also to Sibyl Tyson, at The Springs Inn in Ponce de
Leon, Fla., for assistance in making this etext possible.
[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.
0. "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