Poems of Sidney Lanier.
[Sidney Lanier; (Amer.) Georgian poet and scholar. 1842-1881.]
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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,