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Poems of Sidney Lanier

Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)

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HYMNS OF THE MARSHES.

Yet though life's logic grow as gray

THE WAVING OF THE CORN.

SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE.

FROM THE FLATS.

THE MOCKING BIRD.

THE REVENGE OF HAMISH.

TO BAYARD TAYLOR.

TO CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN.

THE STIRRUP-CUP.

A SONG OF ETERNITY IN TIME.

OWL AGAINST ROBIN.

A SONG OF THE FUTURE.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

1.

[I. O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st]

2.

[II. Now at thy soft recalling voice I rise]

3.

[III. If I do ask, How God can dumbness keep]

4.

[IV. By the more height of thy sweet stature grown]

SPECIAL PLEADING.

THE HARLEQUIN OF DREAMS.

TO NANNETTE FALK-AUERBACH.

TO OUR MOCKING-BIRD.

TO ---, WITH A ROSE.

ON HUNTINGDON'S “MIRANDA.”

ODE TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.

TO DR. THOMAS SHEARER.

MARTHA WASHINGTON.

PSALM OF THE WEST.

A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER.

A FLORIDA SUNDAY.

ON VIOLET'S WAFERS,

UNDER THE CEDARCROFT CHESTNUT.

A SUNRISE SONG.

THE HARD TIMES IN ELFLAND.

UNREVISED EARLY POEMS.

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[II. Now at thy soft recalling voice I rise]

Now at thy soft recalling voice I rise
Where thought is lord o'er Time's complete estate,
Like as a dove from out the gray sedge flies
To tree-tops green where cooes his heavenly mate.
From these clear coverts high and cool I see
How every time with every time is knit,
And each to all is mortised cunningly,
And none is sole or whole, yet all are fit.
Thus, if this Age but as a comma show

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'Twixt weightier clauses of large-worded years,
My calmer soul scorns not the mark: I know
This crooked point Time's complex sentence clears.
Yet more I learn while, Friend! I sit by thee:
Who sees all time, sees all eternity.