To Dr. Thomas Shearer

Sidney Lanier

Presenting a portrait-bust of the author.



Since you, rare friend! have tied my living tongue
 With thanks more large than man e'er said or sung,
So let the dumbness of this image be
 My eloquence, and still interpret me.

Next 10 Poems

• Sidney Lanier : To J. D. H.
• Sidney Lanier : To My Class: On Certain Fruits And Flowers Sent Me In Sickness
• Sidney Lanier : To Nannette Falk-auerbach
• Sidney Lanier : To Our Mocking-bird
• Sidney Lanier : To Wilhelmina
• Sidney Lanier : Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn
• Sidney Lanier : Under The Cedarcroft Chestnut
• Sidney Lanier : Wedding-hymn
• Philip Larkin : A Study Of Reading Habits
• Philip Larkin : Ambulances

Previous 10 Poems

• Sidney Lanier : To Charlotte Cushman
• Sidney Lanier : To Beethoven
• Sidney Lanier : To Baynard Taylor
• Sidney Lanier : To ----, With A Rose
• Sidney Lanier : To ----
• Sidney Lanier : Thou And I
• Sidney Lanier : The Wedding
• Sidney Lanier : The Waving Of The Corn
• Sidney Lanier : The Tournament
• Sidney Lanier : The Symphony