Sidney Lanier Poems on Wisdom & Knowledge Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...

In o'er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music's bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect ...

To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...

I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...

Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day. Each rules a half of earth with different sway, Exchanging kingdoms, ...

How tall among her sisters, and how fair, -- How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair As dawn, 'mid wrinkled ...

Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him Sore, that the song of the robin restrained him Wrongly of slumber, ...

At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time, When far within the spirit's hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the ...

Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...

Sidney Lanier Poems on Wisdom & Knowledge (9 Poems)