Who is Sidney Lanier

Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes used dialects. Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him, and he became hailed in the South as...
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Sidney Lanier Poems

• Marsh Hymns. - Between Dawn And Sunrise
  Were silver pink, and had a soul,
  Which soul were shy, which shyness might
  A visible influence be, and roll
  Through heaven and earth - 'twere thou, O light! ...
• The Jacquerie. A Fragment
  Chapter I.
  
  Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright
  Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
• A Birthday Song. To S. G
  For ever wave, for ever float and shine
  Before my yearning eyes, oh! dream of mine
  Wherein I dreamed that time was like a vine,
  ...
• At First. To Charlotte Cushman
  My crippled sense fares bow'd along
  His uncompanioned way,
  And wronged by death pays life with wrong
  And I wake by night and dream by day. ...
• A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman
  As Love will carve dear names upon a tree,
  Symbol of gravure on his heart to be,
  
  So thought I thine with loving text to set ...

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Sidney Lanier Quotes

• Music is Love in search of a word.

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