Poems of Sidney Lanier

by Lanier, Sidney; Lanier, Mary Day; Lanier, Mary Day

• ISBN13: 9780820321554
• ISBN10: 0820321559
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

The poems of Sidney Lanier continue to find an admiring audience more than a century after his death. Though his poetry evokes both the landscape and the romantic spirit of the Old South, his concerns for the natural world, spirituality, and the character of society offer universal appeal. This anthology includes Lanier's best-known and most celebrated works--"Sunrise," "The Song of the Chattahoochee," "A Song of Love," and "The Marshes of Glynn." These and the other poems presented in the collection reveal Lanier's interest in the welfare and preservation of nature and society and his opposition to southern industrialization. The memorial by William Hayes Ward and the afterword by John Hollander illumine Lanier's ideas for a new generation, offering glimpses into Lanier's life and introducing us to the soldier, lawyer, teacher, lecturer, talented musician, and amazingly gifted writer who captured the South's landscape and character through unforgettable poetry.

Author Biography

Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) was born in Macon, Georgia. After serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, he held a variety of jobs and traveled widely throughout the northern and southern states. In addition to earning success as a poet, Lanier received praise as a professional flutist with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore before he died of tuberculosis in 1881.

Table of Contents

Memorial	xi
HYMNS OF THE MARSHES:
Sunrise	3	(7)
(The Independent, December 1882.)
Individuality	10	(3)
(The Century Magazine, January, 1882.)
Sunset	13	(1)
(The Continent, February, 1882.)
The Marshes of Glynn	14	(5)
(The Masque of Poets, 1879.)
Clover	19	(4)
(The Independent, 1876.)
The Waving of the Corn	23	(1)
(Harper's Magazine, 1877.)
The Song of the Chattahoochee	24	(2)
(Scott's Magazine, 1877.)
From the Flats	26	(1)
(Lippincott's Magazine, 1877.)
The Mocking-Bird	27	(1)
(The Galaxy, August, 1877.)
Tampa Robins	28	(1)
(Lippincott's Magazine, 1877.)
The Crystal	29	(4)
(The Independent, 1880.)
The Revenge of Hamish	33	(6)
(Appletons' Magazine, 1878.)
To Bayard Taylor	39	(4)
(Scribner's Magazine, March, 1879.)
A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman	43	(1)
(Earliest Collected Poems, by Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1876.)
To Charlotte Cushman	44	(1)
(Lippincott's Magazine, March, 1876.)
The Stirrup-Cup	45	(1)
(Scribner's Magazine, 1877.)
A Song of Eternity in Time	46	(1)
(The Independent, 1880.)
Owl Against Robin	47	(3)
(Scribner's Magazine, August, 1880.)
A Song of the Future	50	(1)
(Scribner's Magazine, 1877--78.)
Opposition	51	(1)
(Good Company, 1879--80.)
Rose-Morals	52	(1)
(Lippincott's Magazine, May, 1876.)
Corn	53	(7)
(Lippincott's Magazine, February, 1875.)
The Symphony	60	(11)
(Lippincott's Magazine, June, 1875.)
My Springs	71	(3)
(The Century Magazine, October, 1882.)
In Absence	74	(3)
(Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1875.)
Acknowledgment	77	(3)
(Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1876.)
Laus Mariæ	80	(1)
(Scribner's Magazine, 1876.)
Special Pleading	81	(2)
(Lippincott's Magazine, January, 1876.)
The Bee	83	(2)
(Lippincott's Magazine, October, 1877.)
The Harlequin of Dreams	85	(13)
(Lippincott's Magazine, April, 1878.)
Street Cries
Remonstrance	86	(3)
(The Century Magazine, April, 1883.)
The Ship of Earth	89	(1)
(The Round Table.)
How Love Looked for Hell	89	(4)
(The Century Magazine, March, 1884.)
Tyranny	93	(1)
(The Round Table, February, 1868.)
Life and Song	94	(1)
(The Round Table, September, 1868.)
To Richard Wagner	95	(2)
(The Galaxy, November, 1877.)
A Song of Love	97	(1)
(The Century Magazine, January, 1884.)
To Beethoven	98	(3)
(The Galaxy, March, 1877.)
An Frau Rannette Falk-Auerbach	101	(1)
(1878.)
To Nannette Falk-Auerbach	102	(1)
(Baltimore Gazette, 1878.)
To Our Mocking-Bird	103	(2)
(The Independent, 1878.)
The Dove	105	(1)
(Scribner's Magazine, May, 1878.)
To ---, with a Rose	106	(1)
(Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1876.)
On Huntingdon's ``Miranda,''	107	(1)
(N. Y. Evening Post, 1874.)
Ode to the Johns Hopkins University	108	(4)
(The University Circular, 1880.)
To Dr. Thomas Shearer	112	(1)
Martha Washington	113	(1)
(The Centennial Court Journal, 1876.)
Psalm of the West	114	(25)
(Lippincott's Magazine, June, 1876.)
At First. To Charlotte Cushman	139	(2)
(The Independent, 1883.)
A Ballad of Trees and the Master	141	(1)
(The Independent, 1880-81.)
A Florida Sunday	142	(4)
(Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, 1877.)
To My Class	146	(1)
(The Independent, October, 1884.)
On Violet's Wafers	147	(1)
(The Independent, October, 1884.)
Ireland	148	(1)
(The Art Autograph, 1880.)
Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut	149	(2)
(Scribner's Magazine, 1877--78.)
An Evening Song	151	(1)
(Lippincott's Magazine, January, 1877.)
A Sunrise Song	152	(1)
On A Palmetto	153	(1)
Struggle	154	(1)
Control	155	(1)
To J. D. H.	156	(1)
Marsh Hymns	157	(1)
Thou and I	158	(1)
The Hard Times in Elfland	159	(12)
(The Christmas Magazine, Baltimore, 1877.)
DIALECT POEMS.
A Florida Ghost	171	(4)
(Appletons' Magazine, 1877--78.)
Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn. (Sidney and Clifford Lanier)	175	(2)
(Scribner's Magazine, 1876.)
``Nine from Eight,''	177	(3)
(The Independent, March, 1884.)
``Thar's More in the Man Than Thar is in the Land,''	180	(3)
(Georgia Daily, 1869.)
Jones's Private Argyment	183	(2)
The Power of Prayer; or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. (Sidney and Clifford Lanier)	185	(6)
(Scribner's Magazine, 1875--76.)
UNREVISED EARLY POEMS.
The Jacquerie. A Fragment	191	(24)
The Golden Wedding	215	(2)
Strange Jokes	217	(1)
(The Independent, 1883.)
Nirvana	218	(3)
(The Southern Magazine, 1871.)
The Raven Days	221	(1)
Our Hills	222	(1)
Laughter in the Senate	223	(1)
Baby Charley	224	(1)
(Lippincott's Magasine, January, 1883.)
A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L. (Sidney and Clifford Lanier)	225	(1)
(The Southern Magazine, July, 1871.)
Souls and Rain-Drops	226	(1)
(Lippincott's Magazine, 1883.)
Nilsson	227	(1)
(The Independent, April, 1883.)
Night and Day	228	(1)
(The Independent, July 1884.)
A Birthday Song. To S. G.	229	(2)
(The Round Table, 1867.)
Resurrection	231	(1)
(The Round Table, October, 1868.)
To ---	232	(1)
The Wedding	233	(1)
(The Independent, August, 1884.)
The Palm and the Pine	234	(1)
Spring Greeting	235	(1)
The Tournament	236	(4)
(The Round Table, 1867.)
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson	240	(2)
To Wilhelmina	242	(1)
(The Manhattan Magazine, September, 1884.)
Wedding-Hymn	243	(1)
(The Independent, August, 1884.)
In the Foam	244	(1)
(The Round Table, 1867.)
Barnacles	245	(1)
(The Round Table, 1867.)
Night	246	(1)
(The Independent, May, 1884.)
June Dreams, In January	247	(6)
(The Independent, September, 1884.)
Notes to Poems	253	(6)
The Centennial Meditation of Columbia. 1776--1876. A Cantata	259	(2)
Note to the Cantata	261	(4)
Afterword	265
John Hollander