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    Poem Outlines
    Poem Outlines
    Poem Outlines
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    Poem Outlines

    By Sidney Lanier

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Poem Outlines" by Sidney Lanier. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    Release dateSep 16, 2022
    ISBN8596547329763
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      Poem Outlines - Sidney Lanier

      Sidney Lanier

      Poem Outlines

      EAN 8596547329763

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      BOY'S LIBRARY OF LEGEND AND CHIVALRY

      POEM OUTLINES

      THE DYSPEPTIC

      TO THE POLITICIANS

      ORNAMENT BEFORE DRESS

      BEETHOVEN

      THE SONG OF ALDHELM

      CHOPIN

      A BUSINESS TRANSACTION

      FOR A FLOWER DECORATION OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES

      SONGS OF ALDHELM

      WATER AT DAWN

      A GARDEN PARTY

      TO A CERTAIN THREE OAKS IN DRUID HILL PARK

      HOW TWELVE STAGS PLOWED FOR SAINT LEONOR

      WHAT AM I WITHOUT THEE?

      BOY'S LIBRARY OF LEGEND AND

      CHIVALRY

      Table of Contents

      POEM OUTLINES

      Table of Contents

      BY

      SIDNEY LANIER

      The Artist: he

      Who lonesome walks amid a thousand friends.

      NEW YORK

      CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

      MDCCCCVIII

      Copyright, 1908, by Charles Scribner's Sons

      Published September, 1908

      Footnote

      Table of Contents

      It requires but little intimacy with the true artist to see that, whether his medium of expression be words or music or the brush, much of his finest achievement can never be given to his fellows bearing the stamp of perfect craftsmanship. As when the painter, with hand momentarily inspired by the fervor of the eye, fixes in a sketch some miracle of color or line, which vanishes with each succeeding stroke of the brush laboring to embody it in a finished picture—so the poet may transcribe one note of his own tense heart strings; may find fluttering words that zigzag aerially beside the elusive new-born thought; may strike out in the rough some heaven-scaling conception—to discover too often that these priceless fragments cannot be fused again, cannot be joined with commoner metals into a conventional quatrain or sonnet.

      At such moments, by some subtle necromancy of quivering genius, the poet in his exaltation weaves sinuous words into a magic net with which he snares at one cast the elfin woods fancies, the shy butterfly ideas that flit across secluded glades of the imagination, invisible even to him at other times; and there these delicate creatures lie, flashing forth from the meshes glimpses of an unearthly brilliance—for all time, if he be wise

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