title: Poems of Sidney Lanier
author:  Sidney Lanier 
description: THE POEMS OF SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881) CONTINUE TO FIND AN ADMIRING AUDIENCE MORE THAN A CENTURY AFTER HIS DEATH. COLLECTED HERE ARE LANIER'S BEST-KNOWN AND MOST CELEBRATED WORKS, INCLUDING "SUNRISE", "THE SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE", "A SONG OF LOVE", AND "THE MARSHES OF GLYNN". THE MEMORIAL BY WILLIAM HAYES WARD AND THE AFTERWORD BY JOHN HOLLANDER OFFER GLIMPSES INTO LANIER'S LIFE, 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.
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  # In Divers Tones
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles G. D. Roberts
  
  
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  COLLECT FOR DOMINION DAY.
  
  
  CANADA.
  
  
  ACTAEON.
  
  
  IN THE AFTERNOON.
  
  
  THE PIPES OF PAN.
  
  
  BEFORE THE BREATH OF STORM.
  
  
  OUT OF POMPEII.
  
  
  TO FREDERICTON IN MAY-TIME.
  
  
  IN SEPTEMBER.
  
  
  CONCERNING CUTHBERT THE MONK.
  
  
  IMPULSE.
  
  
  THE ISLES—AN ODE.
  
  
  A SERENADE.
  
  
  OFF PELORUS.
  
  
  A BALLADE OF CALYPSO.
  
  
  RAIN.
  
  
  MIST.
  
  
  THE TANTRAMAR REVISITED.
  
  
  THE SLAVE WOMAN.
  
  
  THE MARVELLOUS WORK.
  
  
  A SONG OF DEPENDENCE.
  
  
  ON THE CREEK.
  
  
  LOTOS.
  
  
  THE SOWER.
  
  
  THE POTATO HARVEST.
  
  
  AFLOAT.
  
  
  RECKONING.
  
  
  IN NOTRE DAME.
  
  
  NOCTURNE.
  
  
  TIDES.
  
  
  CONSOLATION.
  
  
  DARK.
  
  
  THE FOOTPATH.
  
  
  TOUT OU RIEN.
  
  
  SALT.
  
  
  KHARTOUM.
  
  
  LIBERTY.
  
  
  TO THE MEMORY OF SIDNEY LANIER.
  
  
  ON READING THE POEMS OF SIDNEY LANIER.
  
  
  TO BLISS CARMAN,
  
  
  A BALLADE OF PHILOMELA.
  
  
  A HERALD.
  
  
  WINTER GERANIUMS.
  
  
  A BREATHING TIME.
  
  
  BIRCH AND PADDLE.
  
  
  AN ODE FOR THE CANAD