He's fast asleep. See how, O Wife,
Night's finger on the lip of life
Bids whist the tongue, so prattle-rife,
Of busy

(C) Sidney Lanier
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Sidney Lanier

• A Song Of Eternity In Time
• The Song Of The Chattahoochee.
• To
• Control
• Baby Charley
• Barnacles
• Individuality
• Clover
• Corn
• Our Hills
• Rose-morals
• The Jacquerie: A Fragment: Chapter I
• The Dove
• Thars More In The Man Than Thar Is In The Land
• My Springs
• Nilsson
• The Bee
• Night
• A Song Of The Future
• Nirvana
• Sunrise