Sidney Lanier - Poems of Sidney Lanier

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'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'

Sidney Lanier

On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.

Sidney Lanier

Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

Sidney Lanier

Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last
When out of the woods He came.

Sidney Lanier

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier

O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

Sidney Lanier