Sidney Lanier Quotes - Page 2

• I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

  Sidney Lanier

  Style, Faults, Metaphor

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• Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.

  Sidney Lanier

  Mystery Of Death, Circus, Sides

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• Out of the woods my Master came,
  Content with death and shame.
  When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
  From under the trees they drew Him last:
  'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last
  When out of the woods He came.

  Sidney Lanier

  Tree, Woods, Lasts

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.141, University of Georgia Press

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• Well: Love and Pain
  Be kinfolks twain;
  Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.

  Sidney Lanier

  Famous Love, Pain, Wells

  Sidney Lanier, “A Song Of Love”

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