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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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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.