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Sidney Lanier

1842–1881

Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) was an American poet and musician from Georgia who served in the Confederate army, was imprisoned as a prisoner of war, and spent much of his short life battling the tuberculosis that eventually killed him.

A trained flautist, he brought a musician’s sense of rhythm and sound to poems such as ‘The Marshes of Glynn’ and ‘The Song of the Chattahoochee’, which celebrate the landscape of the American South.

Major Works (2)

  1. Psalm of the West — Narrative poem, 1876
  2. The Jacquerie — Narrative poem, 1868

Poems (100)

  1. Clover (1)
  2. The Waving of the Corn
  3. The Song of the Chattahoochee
  4. From the Flats
  5. The Mocking-Bird (1)
  6. Tampa Robins
  7. The Crystal
  8. The Revenge of Hamish
  9. To Bayard Taylor
  10. To Charlotte Cushman
  11. The Stirrup-Cup
  12. A Song of Eternity in Time
  13. Owl against Robin
  14. A Song of the Future
  15. Opposition
  16. Rose-Morals
  17. Corn (1)
  18. The Symphony
  19. My Springs (1)
  20. In Absence
  21. Acknowledgment
  22. Laus Mariae
  23. Special Pleading
  24. The Bee
  25. The Harlequin of Dreams
  26. Street Cries
  27. To Beethoven
  28. An Frau Nannette Falk-Auerbach
  29. To Nannette Falk-Auerbach (1)
  30. To Our Mocking-Bird (1)
  31. The Dove
  32. On Huntingdon's "Miranda"
  33. Ode to the Johns Hopkins University (1)
  34. A Florida Sunday
  35. To My Class: On Certain Fruits and Flowers Sent Me in Sickness (1)
  36. On Violet's Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill
  37. Ireland
  38. Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut (1)
  39. An Evening Song
  40. A Sunrise Song
  41. On a Palmetto
  42. Struggle
  43. Control
  44. Marsh Hymns
  45. Thou and I
  46. The Hard Times in Elfland
  47. A Florida Ghost (1)
  48. Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn
  49. Jones's Private Argyment
  50. Betrayal
  51. The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier, September 27, 1868
  52. Strange Jokes
  53. Nirvana
  54. The Raven Days
  55. Our Hills
  56. Baby Charley
  57. By Sidney and Clifford Lanier
  58. Souls and Rain-Drops
  59. Nilsson
  60. Night and Day
  61. Resurrection
  62. The Wedding
  63. The Palm and the Pine
  64. Spring Greeting
  65. The Tournament
  66. The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson
  67. To Wilhelmina
  68. Wedding-Hymn
  69. In the Foam
  70. Barnacles
  71. Night (1)
  72. June Dreams, in January
  73. Notes to Poems
  74. Clover (2)
  75. The Mocking-Bird (2)
  76. Corn (2)
  77. My Springs (2)
  78. To Nannette Falk-Auerbach (2)
  79. To Our Mocking-Bird (2)
  80. Ode to the Johns Hopkins University (2)
  81. To My Class: On Certain Fruits and Flowers Sent Me in Sickness (2)
  82. Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut (2)
  83. A Florida Ghost (2)
  84. Night (2)
  85. The Centennial Cantata
  86. From “The Marshes of Glynn”
  87. The Story of Vinland
  88. The Triumph
  89. Lexington
  90. Land of the Wilful Gospel
  91. The Centennial Meditation of Columbia
  92. Sunrise
  93. Individuality
  94. Marsh Song -- At Sunset
  95. The Marshes of Glynn
  96. Martha Washington
  97. At First. To Charlotte Cushman
  98. A Ballad of Trees and the Master
  99. The Power of Prayer; or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama
  100. Song for "The Jacquerie" (May the maiden)

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