Sidney Lanier
1842–1881
Best-known poems
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The Marshes of Glynn
Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven
With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven
Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,— … -
A Sunrise Song
Young palmer sun, that to the shining sands
Pourest thy pilgrim’s tale, discoursing still
Thy silver passages of sacred lands, …
All poems (21)
- A Ballad of Trees and the MasterInto the woods my Master went,
- A Ballad of Trees and the MasterInto the woods my Master went,
- A Song of Eternity in TimeOnce, at night, in the manor wood
- A Song of LoveHey, rose, just born
- A Sunrise SongYoung palmer sun, that to the shining sands
- An Evening SongLook off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,
- Baby CharleyHe’s fast asleep. See how, O Wife,
- ControlO Hunger, Hunger, I will harness thee
- CornTo-day the woods are trembling through and through
- Evening SongLook off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,
- Night and DayThe innocent, sweet Day is dead.
- Song for "The Jaquerie"Betrayal
- Song of the Chattahoocheeout of the hills of Habersham,
- Song of the Future'Tis strange that in a land so strong
- SunriseIn my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain
- Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes[See full text.]
- The Harlequin of DreamsSwift, through some trap mine eyes have never found,
- The Marshes of GlynnGlooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven
- The Mocking BirdSuperb and sole, upon a plumëd spray
- The Stirrup-CupDeath, thou ’rt a cordial old and rare:
- Uncle Jim’s Baptist Revival HymnSolo.—
