Poems of Sidney Lanier.
[Sidney Lanier; (Amer.) Georgian poet and scholar. 1842-1881.]
Etext by A. Light, alight@mercury.interpath.net
Special thanks to Oliver Darmstaedter, Wiebke Schuck, and Thomas Schaich for their help deciphering the old German font used for the poem (in German), `An Frau Nannette Falk-Auerbach'.
Special thanks also to Sibyl Tyson, at The Springs Inn in Ponce de Leon, Fla., for assistance in making this etext possible.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalized, if the italics were used for emphasis, or put in quotation marks, if the italics indicated a quotation. In one case, an italicized and indented paragraph has been indented 10 spaces to set it apart. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces.]
Poems of Sidney Lanier.
Edited by his wife (Mary D. Lanier)
With a Memorial by William Hayes Ward.
—— "Go, trembling song,
And stay not long; oh stay not long;
Thou'rt only a gray and sober dove,
But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love."