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star-memories of happier times
of loving deeds and lovers' rhymes
throng forth in silvery pantomimes | img2poems |
a creeping rose that clomb a height of dread
out of the sea of birth all filled with dead
up to the brilliant cloud of death o'erhead | img2poems |
and rose an odor by a spirit haunted
and drew me upward with a speed enchanted
swift floating by wild sea or sky undaunted | img2poems |
my brain is blank my tears are red
listen o god: i will he said
and i would that i were dead | img2poems |
ring ring o bells full merrily
life-bells to her death-bells to me
o death i am true wife to thee | img2poems |
brain rose again ungloved
heart dying smiled and faintly said
my love to my beloved | img2poems |
order a
p
hill to prepare for battle | img2poems |
o hero-words that glittered like the stars
and stood and shone above the gloomy wars
when the hero-life was done | img2poems |
thy weak white arm his blows may thwart
christ buffet the wild surge for thee
till thou'rt ashore sweetheart | img2poems |
the past hath crusted cumbrous shells
that hold the flesh of cold sea-mells
about my soul | img2poems |
the huge waves wash the high waves roll
each barnacle clingeth and worketh dole
and hindereth me from sailing | img2poems |
for i am living but thou art dead
thou drawest back i strive ahead
the day to find | img2poems |
like the round pearl that egypt drunk in wine
the sun half sinks i' the brimming rosy brine
the wild night drinks all up: how her eyes shine | img2poems |
now the swift sail of straining life is furled
and through the stillness of my soul is whirled
the throbbing of the hearts of half the world | img2poems |
i hear a haggard student turn and sigh
i hear men begging heaven to let them die
and drowning all a wild-eyed woman's cry | img2poems |
let fall on her a rose-leaf rain of dreams
all passionate-sweet as are the loving beams
of starlight on the glimmering woods and streams | img2poems |
the three `hymns of the marshes' which open this collection
are the only written portions of a series of six `marsh hymns
that were designed by the author to form a separate volume | img2poems |
this sonnet was originally written in the german and published
in a german daily of baltimore while the author's translation
appeared at the same time in the baltimore `gazette | img2poems |
the history of this bird's life is given at length under the title of bob
in `the independent' of august and will show that he deserved
to be immortal as we hope he is | img2poems |
and there oh there
as ye hang with your myriad palms upturned in the air
pray me a myriad prayer | img2poems |
from this hundred-terraced height
sight more large with nobler light
ranges down yon towering years | img2poems |
jamestown out of thee
plymouth thee thee albany
winter cries `ye freeze:' away | img2poems |
this is because in context the past tense seems to fit better
and therefore this change allows the text to flow better
it should not alter the content in any meaningful sense | img2poems |
the project gutenberg etext of select poems of sidney lanier
edited by morgan callaway
our rd book regarding sidney lanier | img2poems |
when all other email fails try our executive director
michael s
hart | img2poems |
associate professor of english philology in the university of texas
formerly fellow of the johns hopkins university
author of the absolute participle in anglo-saxon | img2poems |
finally only a few months ago the chautauquans of the class of
determined to call themselves the laniers in honor of
the poet and his brother | img2poems |
lanier's next publication `florida: its scenery climate and history
was written by commission of the atlantic coast line and appeared in
to use the author's own epithet `florida' is a spiritualized guide-book | img2poems |
this may be found in professor tolman's article
cited in the `bibliography
quoted by tolman | img2poems |
but trade saith no
and the kilns and the curt-tongued mills say go
there's plenty that can if you can't: we know | img2poems |
it was this profound knowledge of music of course that enabled lanier
to write his work on `the science of english verse' and gave him
a technical skill in versification akin to that of tennyson | img2poems |
but to lanier the ministration of nature was by no means passive
and we find him calling upon the leaves actively to minister to his need
and even to intercede for him to their maker | img2poems |
a scrap worthy to be placed beside steele's to love her
is a liberal education which has often been declared
the happiest thing on the subject in the english language | img2poems |
caedmon in the morn
a-calling angels with the cow-herd's call
that late brought up the cattle | img2poems |
largest voice
since milton yet some register of wit
wanting | img2poems |
moreover it should be observed that lanier frequently uses
significant compounds a habit acquired no doubt
from his study of old english in which as in german such compounds abound | img2poems |
thou gashed and hairy lear
whom the divine cordelia of the year
e'en pitying spring will vainly strive to cheer | img2poems |
now in each pettiest personal sphere of dew
the summ'd morn shines complete as in the blue
big dew-drop of all heaven | img2poems |
`individuality' l
`individuality' l
`individuality' ll | img2poems |
wilt ask `what profit e'er a poet brings
he beareth starry stuff about his wings
to pollen thee and sting thee fertile | img2poems |
`life and song' is the fifth of a series of seven poems
published under the general heading of `street-cries
with the two stanzas following as an introduction | img2poems |
the remaining numbers of the series are: `remonstrance
given in this volume `the ship of earth' `how love looked for hell
`tyranny' `to richard wagner' `a song of love | img2poems |
coleman's `corn' in `the atlantic monthly' aug
which since it consists of but four lines and is more like lanier's poem
than are the others may be quoted | img2poems |
dumas's `corn-shucking' and `the last ear of corn
both life-like pictures of plantation life in his
`the golden day and miscellaneous poems | img2poems |
paul hamilton hayne whose love of nature rivals lanier's
has an interesting poem entitled `muscadines' (`poems' boston
pp | img2poems |
these may be found either in gosse's `english lyrics' (d
appleton co
new york) or in palgrave's `golden treasury of songs and lyrics | img2poems |
there is in early english literature a most interesting play
entitled `mary magdalene': see pollard's `english miracle plays
where extracts are given | img2poems |
- it is precisely this evil that ruskin has in mind i take it
when he condemns the commercial text buy in the cheapest market and sell
in the dearest and when he declares that competition is the law of death | img2poems |
for a full account of the `hautboy' and other musical instruments
mentioned in the poem see lanier's `the orchestra of to-day
cited in the `bibliography | img2poems |
the two lines may be translated: love is the physician of life
and next to our lord himself moreover it is the way that goes
straight to heaven | img2poems |
thomas carew has several rose-moralities as `the true beauty
beginning he that loves a rosy cheek and his exquisite
`red and white roses | img2poems |
rollicking robert herrick too draws his morals now advising the virgins
to make much of time as in his `gather ye rose-buds while ye may
now preaching a rarely pathetic sermon as in `to blossoms | img2poems |
what were ye born to be
an hour or half's delight
and so to bid good-night | img2poems |
'twas pity nature brought ye forth
merely to show your worth
and lose you quite | img2poems |
much like this last piece in import and scarcely inferior to it in execution
is `my life is like the summer rose' of richard henry wilde
which is familiar to every one | img2poems |
paul hamilton hayne's `the red and the white rose
is an interesting dialogue which the author concludes by making the former
an earthly queen and the latter a heaven-bound votaress | img2poems |
the fact that jonson here translates a prose love-letter of philostratus
the greek sophist may detract from the originality but not the beauty
of his poem | img2poems |
walt whitman r
h
wilde | img2poems |
oh no
i caught my strains
from nature's freshest veins | img2poems |
it will be interesting and instructive to compare the tributes
to the mocking-bird with keats's `ode to a nightingale
shelley's `to a skylark' and wordsworth's `to the skylark | img2poems |
interesting books about mull and the hebrides are
johnson's `a journey to the hebrides' and robert buchanan's `the hebrid isles
instructive too is cummin's `around mull | img2poems |
two letters to bayard taylor: taylor and scudder's
`life and letters of bayard taylor' vol
ii | img2poems |
to lucie written on st
valentine's day published in `from dixie
richmond va | img2poems |
burton richard e
: `lanier bibliography' in gilman's
`memorial of sidney lanier' pp | img2poems |
hayne paul h
: `a poet's letters to a friend' `the critic'
february | img2poems |
lind w
murdoch: `sidney lanier's library' `the daily news
july | img2poems |
richardson charles f
: `american literature' vols
new york - vol | img2poems |
sladen douglas: `some younger american poets i
' `the independent
june | img2poems |
ward wm
hayes: `sidney lanier on moral purpose in art
`the independent' may | img2poems |
ward wm
hayes: `sidney lanier poet' `century magazine
april | img2poems |
west charles n
: `address before the georgia historical society
savannah december pp | img2poems |
lanier clifford: `acknowledgment to all who love s
l
`the independent' april | img2poems |
reese lizette woodworth: `southern bivouac
january `with a copy of lanier's poems' `the independent
march | img2poems |
(no attempt has been made to be complete
this only serves
as a pointer to other materials | img2poems |
this text has been amended to include the marshes of glynn
and some notes on the same (mostly drawn from the biography of sidney lanier
by edwin mims ) that were not in the original | img2poems |
so shall each unjust bond be broke
each toiler gain his meet reward
and life sound forth a truer chord | img2poems |
possibly then your meaning plain
is that your harsh and broken strain
tallies best with a world of pain | img2poems |
the suns go on without end
the universe holds no friend
and so i come back to you | img2poems |
the sunshine of thine eyes
whatever it touches it fills
with the life of its lambent gleam | img2poems |
calling gov'ment black don't seem polite
yet i'll swear its actions wouldn't show
'longside blackmouth's better 'n soot with snow | img2poems |
bullet in the breast
his body 's there
but poor blackmouth's gone i don't know where | img2poems |
alas the embers old
fell and the moonlight fell above
dim shattered vapor-cold | img2poems |
nay nothing am i
but the flight of a breath
for i am death | img2poems |
but all this show of life i keep
is but the shadow of your shine
flicker of your fire husk of your vine | img2poems |
thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from
the
contradiction of tongues | img2poems |
o squandered happiness
vain dust of misery powdering life's fresh flower
the sky was holy but the earth was not | img2poems |
the children of the citadel conquered all
their conquerors smiting them with the pure light
that shone in that strong city fortified | img2poems |
the world's best poetry
vol
x | img2poems |
by
john r
howard | img2poems |
in his introduction to ward's admirable selections from the english
poets matthew arnold critic and poet to whom allusion has already
been made says | img2poems |
the future of poetry is immense because in poetry where it is
worthy of its high destinies our race as time goes on will find an
ever surer and surer stay | img2poems |
but if we conceive thus highly of poetry we must also set our
standard for poetry high since poetry to be capable of fulfilling
such high destinies must be poetry of a high order of excellence | img2poems |
we venture to say on the contrary paradoxical as the remark may
appear that no poet has ever had to struggle with more unfavorable
circumstances than milton | img2poems |
the poem was published in so that for at least twenty-six years
the poet was utilizing all the available resources of civilization and
scholarship to make himself more fit | img2poems |
'blessings be on them and eternal praise
the poets who on earth have made us heirs
of truth and pure delight in heavenly lays | img2poems |
by no means then to attempt a new definition where so many more
competent have failed we may nevertheless gather some points of
certainty from the opinions cited above | img2poems |
absence
farewell
parting | img2poems |
advice
instruction
wisdom | img2poems |
angel
deeds
spirits | img2poems |
anthology
poet the
poetry | img2poems |
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