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THE POEMS
OF
EMMA LAZARUS
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
NARRATIVE, LYRIC, AND DRAMATIC
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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1889
Copyright, 1888,
By MARY LAZARUS and ANNIE LAZARUS.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
CONTENTS.
PAGE | ||
Biographical Sketch of Emma Lazarus | 1 | |
Epochs. | ||
I. | Youth | 40 |
II. | Regret | 41 |
III. | Longing | 42 |
IV. | Storm | 42 |
V. | Surprise | 43 |
VI. | Grief | 44 |
VII. | Acceptance | 45 |
VIII. | Loneliness | 46 |
IX. | Sympathy | 47 |
X. | Patience | 48 |
XI. | Hope | 48 |
XII. | Compensation | 49 |
XIII. | Faith | 50 |
XIV. | Work | 51 |
XV. | Victory | 52 |
XVI. | Peace | 53 |
How Long! | 54 | |
Heros. | 55 | |
Admetus. | 59 | |
Tannhäuser. | 81 | |
Links. | 127 | |
Matins. | 127 | |
Saint Romualdo. | 130 | |
Afternoon. | 141 | |
Phantasies. | ||
I. | Evening | 142 |
II. | Aspiration | 144 |
III. | Wherefore? | 145 |
IV. | Fancies | 147 |
V. | In the Night | 148 |
VI. | Faerie | 149 |
VII. | Confused Dreams | 150 |
On the Proposal, to erect a Monument in England to Lord Byron | 152 | |
Arabesque | 155 | |
Agamemnon’s Tomb | 158 | |
Sic Semper Loberatoribus | 160 | |
Don Rafael | 162 | |
Off Rough Point | 166 | |
Mater Amabilis | 167 | |
Fog | 169 | |
The Elixir | 173 | |
Song | 174 | |
Spring Longing | 175 | |
The South | 178 | |
Spring Star | 181 | |
A June Night | 183 | |
Magnetism | 185 | |
August Moon | 186 | |
Sunrise | 191 | |
Autumn Sadness | 199 | |
A Masque of Venice | 196 | |
Sonnets | ||
Echoes | 201 | |
Success | 202 | |
The New Colossus | 202 | |
Venus of the Louvre | 203 | |
Chopin I., II., III., IV | 204 | |
Symphonic Studies Prelude, L, II., III., IV., V., VI., Epilogue | 206 | |
Long Island Sound | 211 | |
Destiny | 212 | |
1879 | 213 | |
From one Augur to Another | 213 | |
The Cranes of Ibicus | 214 | |
Critic and Poet | 215 | |
St. Michael’s Chapel | 216 | |
Life and Art | 216 | |
Sympathy | 217 | |
Youth and Death | 218 | |
Age and Death | 218 | |
City Visions | 219 | |
Influence | 220 | |
Restlessness | 221 | |
The Spagnoletto: A Play in Five Acts | 222 |
Thanks are due to the Editors of "The Century," Lippincott’s Magazine, and "The Critic," for their courtesy in allowing the poems published by them to be reprinted in these pages.