English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Palm and the Pine. Сидни Ланьер.

Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер)

The Palm and the Pine

From the German of Heine.

In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone,
Upon a wintry height;
It sleeps: around it snows have thrown
A covering of white.

It dreams forever of a Palm
That, far i’ the Morning-land,
Stands silent in a most sad calm
Midst of the burning sand.

Sidney Lanier’s other poems:

1. From the Flats
2. Ode to the Johns Hopkins University
3. A Florida Ghost
4. Nirvana
5. The Wedding

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