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 ...
Sidney Lanier Poems (73 Poems)
In Absence. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twain Hath blown my half o' the wreck from thine ...
On Huntingdon’s “Miranda” (Sidney Lanier Poems)
The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet, And laid him kneeling at thy feet. But, -- guerdon rich for ...
The Dove (Sidney Lanier Poems)
If haply thou, O Desdemona Morn, Shouldst call along the curving sphere, "Remain, Dear Night, sweet Moor; nay, leave me ...
Thou And I (Sidney Lanier Poems)
So one in heart and thought, I trow, That thou might'st press the strings and I might draw the bow ...
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, ...
In The Foam. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Life swelleth in a whitening wave, And dasheth thee and me apart. I sweep out seaward: -- be thou brave. ...
On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Fine-tissued as her finger-tips, and white As all her thoughts; in shape like shields of prize, As if before young ...
The Dying Words Of Stonewall Jackson (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"Order A. P. Hill to prepare for battle." "Tell Major Hawks to advance the Commissary train." "Let us cross the ...
To Baynard Taylor (Sidney Lanier Poems)
To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O'erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, ...
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 ...
Ireland. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Written for the Art Autograph during the Irish Famine, 1880. Heartsome Ireland, winsome Ireland, Charmer of the sun and sea, ...
Opposition (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Of fret, of dark, of thorn, of chill, Complain no more; for these, O heart, Direct the random of the ...
The Hard Times In Elfland (Sidney Lanier Poems)
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
To Beethoven (Sidney Lanier Poems)
In o'er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music's bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect ...
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 ...
Jones’s Porvate Argyment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
That air same Jones, which lived in Jones, He had this pint about him: He'd swear with a hundred sighs ...
Our Hills (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Dear Mother-Earth Of Titan birth, Yon hills are your large breasts, and often I Have climbed to their top-nipples, fain ...
The Harlequin Of Dreams (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found, Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep, Thou, giant Harlequin of ...
To Charlotte Cushman (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam Into the slumb'rous tissue of some stream, Till his bright self ...
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 ...
June Dreams, In January (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
Owl Against Robin (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him Sore, that the song of the robin restrained him Wrongly of slumber, ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
A Sunrise Song. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands Pourest thy pilgrim's tale, discoursing still Thy silver passages of sacred lands, ...
Laughter In The Senate (Sidney Lanier Poems)
In the South lies a lonesome, hungry Land; He huddles his rags with a cripple's hand; He mutters, prone on ...
Resurrection (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Sometimes in morning sunlights by the river Where in the early fall long grasses wave, Light winds from over the ...
The Mocking-Bird (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray That o'er the general leafage boldly grew, He summ'd the woods in song; ...
Acknowledgment. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st, Half doubt'st the substance of thine own half doubt, And, half ...
Laus Mariae (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Across the brook of Time man leaping goes On stepping-stones of epochs, that uprise Fixed, memorable, midst broad shallow flows ...