Author:Sidney Lanier

Marsh Hymns

 * The set of poems for which Lanier is most known.


 * Hymns of the Marshes
 * I. Sunrise (1880)
 * II. Individuality (1878–79)
 * III. Marsh Song—At Sunset (1879–80)
 * IV. The Marshes of Glynn (1878)

Standard works

 * Listed by date when they were composed.


 * The Tournament (1865)
 * The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson (1865)
 * To J. D. H. (1866)
 * Barnacles (1867)
 * The Raven Days (1868)
 * Corn (1874)
 * My Springs (1874)
 * In Absence (1874)
 * On Huntingdon’s “Miranda” (1874)
 * Laus Mariae (1874–75)
 * Acknowledgment (1874–75)
 * The Symphony (1875)
 * Special Pleading (1875)
 * To Charlotte Cushman (1875)
 * At First. To Charlotte Cushman (1876)
 * A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman (1876)
 * Clover (1876)
 * The Waving of the Corn (1876)
 * To Beethoven (1876–77)
 * The Bee (1877)
 * The Stirrup-Cup (1877)
 * Tampa Robins (1877)
 * Song of the Chattahoochee (1877)
 * From the Flats (1877)
 * The Mockingbird (1877)
 * The Revenge of Hamish (1878)
 * To Our Mocking-Bird (1878)
 * The Crystal (1880)
 * To Bayard Taylor (1879)
 * Rose-Morals (1875)
 * Martha Washington (1875)
 * To ——, with a Rose (1876)
 * Psalm of the West (1876)
 * An Evening Song (1876)
 * The Dove (1877)
 * A Florida Sunday (1877)
 * Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut (1877)
 * A Song of the Future (1878)
 * The Harlequin of Dreams (1878)
 * An Frau Nannette Falk-Auerbach (1878)
 * A Song of Eternity in Time (1867, revised 1879)
 * Opposition (1879–80)
 * Owl against Robin (1880)
 * Ode to the Johns Hopkins University (1880)
 * To Dr. Thomas Shearer (1880)
 * Ireland (1880)
 * A Ballad of Trees and the Master (1880–81)
 * To My Class: On Certain Fruits and Flowers Sent Me in Sickness (1880)
 * On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill (1881)
 * On a Palmetto (1880)
 * A Sunrise Song (1881)
 * Thou and I (1881)
 * Struggle (late, undated)
 * Control (late, undated)
 * Marsh Hymns—Between Dawn and Sunrise (late, undated)
 * The Hard Times in Elfland (1877)

The Dialect Poems

 * These poems were written in various dialects of the rural 19th-century South.


 * Thar’s more in the Man than thar is in the Land (1869)
 * Nine from Eight (1870)
 * Jones’s Private Argyment (1870)
 * The Power of Prayer (1875)
 * “or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama”
 * Uncle Jim’s Baptist Revival Hymn (1876)
 * A Florida Ghost (1877)

Street Cries

 * Street Cries (1867–79)
 * Introductory stanzas (undated)
 * I. Remonstrance (1878–79)
 * II. The Ship of Earth (1868)
 * III. How Love Looked for Hell (1878–18)79
 * IV. Tyranny (1867)
 * V. Life and Song (1868)
 * VI. To Richard Wagner (1877)
 * VII. A Song of Love (undated)

Unrevised Early Poems

 * Some of these poems were published only posthumously.


 * To —— (1863)
 * The Palm and the Pine (1864)
 * Spring Greeting (1864)
 * The Wedding (1865)
 * Wedding-Hymn (1865)
 * A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L. (1866) (with Clifford Lanier)
 * Night and Day (1866)
 * A Birthday Song. To S. G. (1866)
 * To Wilhelmina (1866)
 * Night (1866)
 * Strange Jokes (1867)
 * In the Foam (1867)
 * The Jacquerie. A Fragment (1868)
 * The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier, September 27, 1868 (1868)
 * Nirvana (1869)
 * The Raven Days (1868)
 * Our Hills (undated)
 * Laughter in the Senate (1868)
 * Baby Charley (1869)
 * June Dreams, in January (1869)
 * Souls and Rain-Drops (undated)
 * Nilsson (1871)
 * Resurrection (undated)

Derivative works

 * May, the Maiden

Works about Lanier

 * "Memorial" by William Hayes Ward, in Poems of Sidney Lanier (1884), edited by Mary Day Lanier
 * Memorial in General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1913)
 * Memorial in General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1913)
 * Memorial in General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1913)