Sidney Lanier Poems (73 Poems)
Nine From Eight (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I was drivin’ my two-mule waggin, With a lot o’ truck for sale, Towards Macon, to git some baggin’ (Which my cotton was ready to bale), And I come to a place on the side o’ the pike Whar a … Continue reading
Thar’s More In the Man Than Thar Is In The Land (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones, And he lived pretty much by gittin’ of loans, And his mules was nuthin’ but skin and bones, And his hogs … Continue reading
A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had … Continue reading
A Birthday Song. To S. G. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
For ever wave, for ever float and shine Before my yearning eyes, oh! dream of mine Wherein I dreamed that time was like a vine, A creeping rose, that clomb a height of dread Out of the sea of Birth, … Continue reading
A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
As Love will carve dear names upon a tree, Symbol of gravure on his heart to be, So thought I thine with loving text to set In the growth and substance of my canzonet; But, writing it, my tears begin … Continue reading
A Florida Ghost. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Down mildest shores of milk-white sand, By cape and fair Floridian bay, Twixt billowy pines — a surf asleep on land – And the great Gulf at play, Past far-off palms that filmed to nought, Or in and out the … Continue reading
A Florida Sunday. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, They shrive to priestly pines with many a sigh, Breathe salutary balms through lank-lock’d hair Of sick men’s heads, and … Continue reading
A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
By Sidney and Clifford Lanier. O wish that’s vainer than the plash Of these wave-whimsies on the shore: “Give us a pearl to fill the gash – God, let our dead friend live once more!” O wish that’s stronger than … Continue reading
A Song Of Eternity In Time (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Once, at night, in the manor wood My Love and I long silent stood, Amazed that any heavens could Decree to part us, bitterly repining. My Love, in aimless love and grief, Reached forth and drew aside a leaf That … Continue reading
A Song Of The Future. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Sail fast, sail fast, Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams; Sweep lordly o’er the drowned Past, Fly glittering through the sun’s strange beams; Sail fast, sail fast. Breaths of new buds from off some drying lea With news … Continue reading
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