City Visions (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I As the blind Milton's memory of light, The deaf Beethoven's phantasy of tone, Wroght joys for them surpassing all ...
Emma Lazarus Poems (54 Poems)
The New Ezekiel (Emma Lazarus Poems)
What, can these dead bones live, whose sap is dried By twenty scorching centuries of wrong? Is this the House ...
Critic and Poet: an Epilogue (Emma Lazarus Poems)
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define--what is a ...
The Supreme Sacrifice (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Well-nigh two thousand years hath Israel Suffered the scorn of man for love of God; Endured the outlaw's ban, the ...
Destiny (Emma Lazarus Poems)
1856 Paris, from throats of iron, silver, brass, Joy-thundering cannon, blent with chiming bells, And martial strains, the full-voiced pæan ...
The Taming of the Falcon (Emma Lazarus Poems)
The bird sits spelled upon the lithe brown wrist Of yonder turbaned fowler, who had lamed No feather limb, but ...
Echoes (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope, The freshness of the elder lays, the might Of manly, modern passion shall ...
To R.W.E. (Emma Lazarus Poems)
As when a father dies, his children draw About the empty hearth, their loss to cheat With uttered praise & ...
From One Augur to Another (Emma Lazarus Poems)
So, Calchas, on the sacred Palatine, You thought of Mopsus, and o'er wastes of sea A flower brought your message. ...
Venus of the Louvre (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Down the long hall she glistens like a star, The foam-born mother of Love, transfixed to stone, Yet none the ...
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Here, where the noises of the busy town, The ocean's plunge and roar can enter not, We stand and gaze ...
Influence (Emma Lazarus Poems)
The fervent, pale-faced Mother ere she sleep, Looks out upon the zigzag-lighted square, The beautiful bare trees, the blue night-air, ...
Life and Art (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With ...
Long Island Sound (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I see it as it looked one afternoon In August,-by a fresh soft breeze o'erblown. The swiftness of the tide, ...
Marriage Bells (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Music and silver chimes and sunlit air, Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower; Glad, friendly festal faces everywhere. She, ...
St Michael’s Chapel (Emma Lazarus Poems)
When the vexed hubbub of our world of gain Roars round about me as I walk the street, The myriad ...
Success (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain, The pathos of the stupid, stumbling throng. These I ignore to-day and ...
Sympathy (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Therefore I dare reveal my private woe, The secret blots of my imperfect heart, Nor strive to shrink or swell ...
1492 (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate, Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword, The children of ...
Symphonic Studies (After Schumann) (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Prelude Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea: Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in ...
Assurance (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Last night I slept, and when I woke her kiss Still floated on my lips. For we had strayed Together ...
The Cranes of Ibicus (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Here was a man who watched the river flow Past the huge town, one gray November day. Round him in ...
Chopin (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright ...
The New Colossus (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, ...