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Poems of Sidney Lanier

Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)

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HYMNS OF THE MARSHES.
 1. 
I. SUNRISE.
 2. 
II. INDIVIDUALITY.
 3. 
III. MARSH SONG—AT SUNSET.
 4. 
IV. THE MARSHES OF GLYNN.
  
Yet though life's logic grow as gray
  
CLOVER.
  
THE WAVING OF THE CORN.
  
SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE.
  
FROM THE FLATS.
  
THE MOCKING BIRD.
  
TAMPA ROBINS.
  
THE CRYSTAL.
  
THE REVENGE OF HAMISH.
  
TO BAYARD TAYLOR.
  
A DEDICATION.
  
TO CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN.
  
THE STIRRUP-CUP.
  
A SONG OF ETERNITY IN TIME.
  
OWL AGAINST ROBIN.
  
A SONG OF THE FUTURE.
  
OPPOSITION.
  
ROSE-MORALS.
  
CORN.
  
THE SYMPHONY.
  
MY SPRINGS.
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IN ABSENCE.
 1. 
[I. The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twain]
 2. 
[II. So do the mottled formulas of Sense]
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[III. Look down the shining peaks of all my days]
 4. 
[IV. Let no man say, He at his lady's feet]
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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]
  
LAUS MARIÆ.
  
SPECIAL PLEADING.
  
THE BEE.
  
THE HARLEQUIN OF DREAMS.
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STREET-CRIES.
 1. 
I. REMONSTRANCE.
 2. 
II. THE SHIP OF EARTH.
 3. 
III. HOW LOVE LOOKED FOR HELL.
 4. 
IV. TYRANNY.
 5. 
V. LIFE AND SONG.
 6. 
VI. TO RICHARD WAGNER.
 7. 
VII. A SONG OF LOVE.
  
TO BEETHOVEN.
  
TO NANNETTE FALK-AUERBACH.
  
TO OUR MOCKING-BIRD.
  
THE DOVE.
  
TO ---, WITH A ROSE.
  
ON HUNTINGDON'S “MIRANDA.”
  
ODE TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.
  
TO DR. THOMAS SHEARER.
  
MARTHA WASHINGTON.
  
PSALM OF THE WEST.
  
AT FIRST.
  
A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER.
  
A FLORIDA SUNDAY.
  
TO MY CLASS:
  
ON VIOLET'S WAFERS,
  
IRELAND.
  
UNDER THE CEDARCROFT CHESTNUT.
  
EVENING SONG.
  
A SUNRISE SONG.
  
ON A PALMETTO.
  
STRUGGLE.
  
CONTROL.
  
TO J. D. H.
  
MARSH HYMNS.
  
THOU AND I.
  
THE HARD TIMES IN ELFLAND.
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DIALECT POEMS.
  
A FLORIDA GHOST.
  
UNCLE JIM'S BAPTIST REVIVAL HYMN.
  
NINE FROM EIGHT.
  
THAR 'S MORE IN THE MAN THAN THAR IS IN THE LAND.
  
JONES'S PRIVATE ARGYMENT
  
THE POWER OF PRAYER; OR, THE FIRST STEAMBOAT UP THE ALABAMA.
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UNREVISED EARLY POEMS.
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THE JACQUERIE—A FRAGMENT.
 1. 
CHAPTER I.
 2. 
CHAPTER II.
 3. 
CHAPTER III.
 4. 
CHAPTER IV.
 5. 
CHAPTER V.
  
SONG FOR “THE JACQUERIE.”
  
SONG FOR “THE JACQUERIE.”
  
SONG FOR “THE JACQUERIE.”
  
THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF STERLING AND SARAH LANIER, September 27, 1868.
  
STRANGE JOKES.
  
NIRVÂNA.
  
THE RAVEN DAYS.
  
BABY CHARLEY.
  
A SEA-SHORE GRAVE.
  
SOULS AND RAIN-DROPS.
  
NILSSON.
  
NIGHT AND DAY.
  
A BIRTHDAY SONG.
  
RESURRECTION.
  
TO ---.
  
THE WEDDING.
  
THE PALM AND THE PINE.
  
SPRING GREETING.
  
THE TOURNAMENT.
  
THE DYING WORDS OF STONEWALL JACKSON.
  
TO WILHELMINA.
  
WEDDING-HYMN.
  
IN THE FOAM.
  
BARNACLES.
  
NIGHT.
  
JUNE DREAMS, IN JANUARY.
  
THE CENTENNIAL MEDITATION OF COLUMBIA.
1776–1876.

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TO DR. THOMAS SHEARER.

PRESENTING A PORTRAIT-BUST OF THE AUTHOR.

Since you, rare friend! have tied my living tongue
With thanks more large than man e'er said or sung,
So let the dumbness of this image be
My eloquence, and still interpret me.
Baltimore, 1880.
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