Author: Sidney Lanier

Our hearths are gone out and our hearts are broken, And but the ghosts of homes to us remain, And […]

Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, […]

Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain, Run the […]

Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray That o’er the general leafage boldly grew, He summ’d the woods in song; […]

For ever wave, for ever float and shine Before my yearning eyes, oh! dream of mine Wherein I dreamed that […]

“So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With […]

My soul is like the oar that momently Dies in a desperate stress beneath the wave, Then glitters out again […]

Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands Pourest thy pilgrim’s tale, discoursing still Thy silver passages of sacred lands, […]

Between Dawn and Sunrise. Were silver pink, and had a soul, Which soul were shy, which shyness might A visible […]

Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day. Each rules a half of earth with different sway, Exchanging kingdoms, […]