Sidney Lanier (1842 - 1881)

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Sidney Lanier was born in Macon, Georgia on February 3, 1842. He attended a Macon academy in 1857 took up studies at Oglethorpe University in Milledgeville, Georgia. He graduated from Oglethorp in 1860 and after a brief period as a tutor there (1860-61) joined the Macon Volunteers to fight for the Confederacy. During the war he began writing his first novel Tiger-Lilies (which was published in 1867). In 1864 he was captured and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland where he contracted tuber.. Continue..

Some of Sidney Lanier Poems

Nine From Eight

Thar's More In the Man Than Thar Is In The Land

A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master

A Birthday Song. To S. G.

A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman.

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Quote from Author

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

- Sidney Lanier

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