Sovereign Quotes by Sidney Lanier

Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the…

— Sidney Lanier

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

— Sidney Lanier

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and…

— Sidney Lanier

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

— Sidney Lanier

But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's…

— Sidney Lanier

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

— Sidney Lanier

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

— Sidney Lanier

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude…

— Sidney Lanier

O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

— Sidney Lanier

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with…

— Sidney Lanier

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.

— Sidney Lanier

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