Poems of Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier Poems of Sidney Lanier Table of Contents Poems of Sidney Lanier............................................................................................................................................1 Sidney Lanier.................................................................................................................................................2 MEMORIAL..................................................................................................................................................5 POEMS OF SIDNEY LANIER...................................................................................................................16 HYMNS OF THE MARSHES....................................................................................................................17 THE WAVING OF THE CORN.................................................................................................................30 SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE........................................................................................................31 FROM THE FLATS....................................................................................................................................33 THE MOCKING BIRD...............................................................................................................................34 TAMPA ROBINS........................................................................................................................................35 THE CRYSTAL...........................................................................................................................................36 THE REVENGE OF HAMISH...................................................................................................................39 TO BAYARD TAYLOR.............................................................................................................................42 A DEDICATION.........................................................................................................................................45 TO CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN...................................................................................................................46 THE STIRRUP−CUP..................................................................................................................................47 A SONG OF ETERNITY IN TIME............................................................................................................48 OWL AGAINST ROBIN.............................................................................................................................49 A SONG OF THE FUTURE.......................................................................................................................51 OPPOSITION..............................................................................................................................................52 ROSE−MORALS.........................................................................................................................................53 THE SYMPHONY......................................................................................................................................58 MY SPRINGS..............................................................................................................................................66 IN ABSENCE..............................................................................................................................................68 ACKNOWLEDGMENT..............................................................................................................................70 LAUS MARIÆ............................................................................................................................................72 SPECIAL PLEADING................................................................................................................................73 THE BEE.....................................................................................................................................................74 THE HARLEQUIN OF DREAMS..............................................................................................................76 STREET−CRIES.........................................................................................................................................77 TO BEETHOVEN.......................................................................................................................................85 TO NANNETTE FALK−AUERBACH......................................................................................................88 TO OUR MOCKING−BIRD.......................................................................................................................89 DIED OF A CAT, MAY, 1878....................................................................................................................90 THE DOVE..................................................................................................................................................92 TO −, WITH A ROSE..................................................................................................................................93 ON HUNTINGDON'S "MIRANDA.".........................................................................................................94 ODE TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY......................................................................................95 TO DR. THOMAS SHEARER....................................................................................................................98 MARTHA WASHINGTON........................................................................................................................99 PSALM OF THE WEST............................................................................................................................100 AT FIRST..................................................................................................................................................118 A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER.........................................................................................120 A FLORIDA SUNDAY.............................................................................................................................121 TO MY CLASS:........................................................................................................................................124 ON VIOLET'S WAFERS,.........................................................................................................................125 SENT ME WHEN I WAS ILL..................................................................................................................126 IRELAND..................................................................................................................................................127 i Poems of Sidney Lanier Table of Contents Poems of Sidney Lanier UNDER THE CEDARCROFT CHESTNUT............................................................................................128 EVENING SONG......................................................................................................................................129 THE HARD TIMES IN ELFLAND..........................................................................................................130 A STORY OF CHRISTMAS EVE............................................................................................................131 DIALECT POEMS....................................................................................................................................137 A FLORIDA GHOST................................................................................................................................138 UNCLE JIM'S BAPTIST REVIVAL HYMN...........................................................................................141 NINE FROM EIGHT.................................................................................................................................143 THAR'S MORE IN THE MAN THAN THAR IS IN THE LAND..........................................................145 JONES'S PRIVATE ARGYMENT...........................................................................................................147 THE POWER OF PRAYER; OR, THE FIRST STEAMBOAT UP THE ALABAMA...........................149 UNREVISED EARLY POEMS................................................................................................................151 THE JACQUERIE—A FRAGMENT.......................................................................................................152 SONG FOR "THE JACQUERIE."............................................................................................................167 SONG FOR "THE JACQUERIE."............................................................................................................168 SONG FOR "THE JACQUERIE."............................................................................................................169 THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF STERLING AND SARAH LANIER,...................................................170 STRANGE JOKES....................................................................................................................................172 NIRVÂNA.................................................................................................................................................173