The poems of Emma Lazarus
THE POEMS
OF
EMMA LAZARUS
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
NARRATIVE, LYRIC, AND DRAMATIC
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.