The Palm and the Pine

The Palm and the Pine
From the German of Heine
by Sidney Lanier

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Sidney Lanier composed this poem in 1864 in Point Lookout Prison, where he was prisoner of war after being captured by Union Forces during the American Civil War. This poem is grouped among his “unrevised early works”.

117500The Palm and the Pine
From the German of HeineSidney Lanier

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.