Emma Lazarus image
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Born in July 22, 1849 / Died in November 19, 1887 / United States / English

Poems by Emma Lazarus

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The Banner Of The Jew

... Even they who shrunk, even they who slept, ...

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In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport

...  With its lone floors where reverent feet once trod ...

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Assurance

... Cheek pressed to cheek, the cool, the hot night-breeze ...

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The New Colossus

... “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she ...

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Exultation

... "All these for thee, and thou evoked from nothing, ...

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By the Waters of Babylon

... Soul of Israel bursts her cobweb sheath, and flies forth attired in the winged beauty of immortality ...

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Sic Semper Liberatoribus!

... We stand Bowed earthward, red with shame, to see such wrong ...

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The Crowing of the Red Cock

...   The flood of tears, the life-blood spilt, ...

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Venus of the Louvre

... The foam-born mother of Love, transfixed to stone, ...

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The New Year

... Not while the snow-shroud round dead earth is rolled, ...

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The New Year. Rosh-Hashanah, 5643

... Carved like the sea-waves, fell, and the world's light ...

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The South

... s head. Her wealth, her beauty, and the blight on these,— ...

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Chopin

... From out whose chords the lightest breeze that blows ...

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Destiny

... For by her side just breathed the Prince, her child, ...

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Echoes

... Twanging the full-stringed lyre through all its scope ...