Introduction
I. A Brief Sketch of Lanier's Life
II. Lanier's Prose Works
III. Lanier's Poetry: Its Themes
IV. Lanier's Poetry: Its Style
V. Lanier's Theory of Poetry
VI. Conclusion
Poems
Life and Song
Jones's Private Argyment
Corn
My Springs
The Symphony
The Power of Prayer; or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama
Rose-morals
To ----, with a Rose
Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn
The Mocking-bird
Song of the Chattahoochee
The Revenge of Hamish
The Marshes of Glynn
Remonstrance
Opposition
Marsh Song -- At Sunset
A Ballad of Trees and the Master
Sunrise