Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SIDNEY LANIER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: The same blue-bending dome encanopies Last Line: A lingering phantom of the mortal shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881) | ||||||||
The same blue-bending dome encanopies Thine ashes and the spark that kindles mine; Upon the selfsame bosom we recline, When with the wind, the wave, land-lessening, dies And, 'twixt our souls the star-wrought mysteries -- Of Hope the sacred oracles divine -- Steadfast above the vault of darkness shine, To point the path benighted to the skies. For there, of dreams unsepulchred and free "To face the vast sweet Visage, unafraid," That erst thy spirit reverenced to see In Nature's lowliest lineaments portrayed, Thou keepest watchful memory of me, A lingering phantom of the mortal shade. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SIDNEY LANIER IN MONTGOMERY: AUGUST 1866 by ANDREW HUDGINS IN MEMORIAM: THE POLE OF DEATH; SIDNEY LANIER by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE AT LANIER'S GRAVE by JOHN BANISTER TABB LANIER'S FLUTE by JOHN BANISTER TABB ON THE FORTHCOMING VOLUME OF SIDNEY LANIER'S POEMS by JOHN BANISTER TABB TO SIDNEY LANIER (1) by JOHN BANISTER TABB SIDNEY LANIER by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS LOVE LETTER FROM THE GRAVE: SIDNEY LANIER, 1881 by ANDREW HUDGINS ANONYMOUS by JOHN BANISTER TABB |
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