Introductory

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’.

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.”

To My Class: On Certain Fruits and Flowers Sent Me in Sickness. (October, 1884.)

On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill.(October, 1884.)
Ireland.(1880.)
Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut.(1877–78.)
An Evening Song.(January, 1877.)

A Sunrise Song.

On a Palmetto.

Struggle.

Control.

To J. D. H.

Marsh Hymns.

Thou and I.

The Hard Times in Elfland.(Baltimore, 1877.)

Dialect Poems.

A Florida Ghost.(1877–78.)
Uncle Jim’s Baptist Revival Hymn.(Sidney and Clifford Lanier). (1876.)
“Nine from Eight”.(March, 1884.)
“Thar’s more in the Man than thar is in the Land”.(1869.)

Jones’s Private Argyment.

The Power of Prayer; or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. (Sidney and Clifford Lanier). (1875–76.)

Unrevised Early Poems.

The Jacquerie. A Fragment.

The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier, September 27, 1868.

Strange Jokes.(1883.)
Nirvana.(1871.)

The Raven Days.

Our Hills.

Laughter in the Senate.

Baby Charley.(January, 1883.)
A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L.(Sidney and Clifford Lanier). (July, 1871.)
Souls and Rain-Drops.(1883.)
Nilsson.(April, 1883.)
Night and Day.(July, 1884.)
A Birthday Song. To S. G.(1867.)
Resurrection.(October, 1868.)

To—.

The Wedding.(August, 1884.)

The Palm and the Pine.

Spring Greeting.

The Tournament.(1867.)

The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson.

To Wilhelmina.(September, 1884.)
Wedding-Hymn.(August, 1884.)
In the Foam.(1867.)
Barnacles.(1867.)
Night.(May, 1884.)
June Dreams, in January.(September, 1884.)

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