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Life has grown strange and cold - Emma Lazarus "Age and Death"

Recall to-day the glorious Maccabean rage - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

Where Greeks profaned the Law - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

Ten thousand rush to victory - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

To blow a blast of shattering power - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

And rouse them to the urgent hour - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

Your ancient strength remains unbent - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

In one routed army of misfortune - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Woe to the straggler who falls - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The vines they planted, the corn they sowed - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The blankness of the receding goal - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Whisper to the despairing exiles - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

To unlock the golden gates of sunset - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Slumbered beneath the overwhelming waves - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The delicate pearl and the adamantine jewel - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Touched the ends of the horizon - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Blossoms of gold and blossoms of blood - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

And a serpent was coiled about its stem - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Treacherous boughs to strangle the Sower - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Disentangled the murderous knot - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

A myriad-branching, cloud-aspiring tree - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Arose in silent rebuke and defiance - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Above the sleeping eyelids of the senses - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The cry of the exiles of Babylon - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The voice of Rachel mourning - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Bursts the dykes of oppression - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Whose bounty engirdles the globe - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The live coal wherewith the Seraphim brand the Prophets - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Imprisoned in dark corners of misery - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

No whit less fresh and fugitive - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

The transitions of the swift year's flight - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Stripped of all illusive veil or haze - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Will affirm this brave display is real - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

The doom is sent that rends our world asunder - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

A cobweb world of thin, transparent shapes - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

With it died the rapture and the trust - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

A dream of interlinking hands - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Feet tireless to spin the unseen - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

The unseen, fairy woof of the entangling waltz - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Laughter echoes from the vaulted roof - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Beneath the strain of reckless revelry - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

One fundamental chord of constant pain - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

All the dancing wavers rejoice - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Consuming with its inward flame - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

The wild bird's untutored melodies - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

In the whirl of seething passions - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

An amazon of thought with sovereign eyes - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Whose kiss was poison - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Memory of light - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Surpassing all things known - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

In our restricted sphere - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

As the winds are free - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Blind Milton's memory of light - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Deaf Beethoven's phantasy of tone - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

The glaring streets of brick and stone - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Taking flight from dismal now - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Who sit 'twixt darkened walls - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Open unseen gates with key of gold - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Lending elf-music to thy harshest word - Emma Lazarus "Echoes"

Sacred vials of learning - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

My black doubts illumined and absorbed - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

Beyond day's purple limit dropped - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

The flame that may not scorch - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

Outrun time's rapid sands - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

The unclouded glow of sun-steeped skies - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

The venomed shafts of slander - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

The taper like the steadfast star - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

With crowns and silken spoils - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

Who had flung their faces on the stones - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

Dreamlike before me floating - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Behind thy pearly veils opaque, mysterious woof - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

To stand and stare at nothingness - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Continuous life beyond this silvery cloud - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Of tissue subtler still than the wreathed fog - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

And cheat my brain with airy vanishings - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

And mystic glories of the world beyond - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Fretted with burning stones, and trellised with red gold - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Through the lattice high in yon dead wall - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Through still, soft air that cry is yet prolonged - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Dazzling sunshine streams upon a newborn world - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Sandbirds twittering glance through crystal air - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

On the rim of the globed world - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]

These dim, gray outer courts of her fantastic palace - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]

Poured with tender love her healing Lethe-balm - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]

Mother of Change and Fate - Emma Lazarus "1492"

Spurned by zealot hate - Emma Lazarus "1492"

Where doors of sunset part - Emma Lazarus "1492"

There falls each ancient barrier - Emma Lazarus "1492"

And strove to make its hidden meaning plain - Emma Lazarus "Fra Aloysius" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.98, Feb. 1876]

The dark vines shed their splendid clusters - Emma Lazarus "Harvest" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.32, Nov. 1873]

The yoke-freed oxen low - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

Brows bare to evenings fan - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

Freedom to dig the common earth - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

And truth's perpetual lamp forbid to wane - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

That wrests the victory from pain - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

And the broad prairie melts in mist of tears - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

And muse upon the consecrated spot - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

These lone exiles of a thousand years - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

In this new world of light - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

This relic of the days of old - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

Fleeing hosts by flaming angels led - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

In the rich court of royal Solomon - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

Floors where reverent feet once trod - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

In this free, clear air that vision floats - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Color and blood and life and truth - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

That our imaginings excel your handiwork - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Nothing real responds to those ideal forms - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

To draw mine inspirations from the common air - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

What craft may paint the unearthly peace - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

No longer dwell the angels on the earth - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

The heat has been too fierce for wayfarers - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Gave his dying blessing unto me and mine - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Now no earthly trace of him remains - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Washed away the last wrecked fragments - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Through summer's withering heats and blighting droughts - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

The world lay ruined under rain and sliding snows - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

And the silence now awakens him - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

So rare a picture should not pass away - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Solace I sought not, nor relief - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Through frozen veins of rigid wood - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Spread an iron network overhead - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Measure my strength against her strength - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

I know the very form and traits of Woe - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Drained the galled dregs of the draught she offered - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Laughed in irony of sheer despair - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Visions thrill and haunt my brain - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

To lift the heart's dead weight of care - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Longings and golden dreams to bring - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

The brazen giant of Greek fame - Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"

Whose flame is the imprisoned lightning - Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"

Naked branches point to frozen skies - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Orchards burn their lamps of fiery gold - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

The red, dark year is dead - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

And the world's light went out - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Enlarged unto earth's farthest rim - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

High above flood and fire - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

In a cynic age of crumbling faiths - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Offer the first fruits of the clustered bowers - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

The garnered spoil of bees - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

By austere penance and continuous toil - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

Of ignominy, malice and affront - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

This is but the natural harvest reaped - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

Subtler than the tissue of the air - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

That nowise touched the trouble of the hour - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

Who knows the thunders of the terrors of the world - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

Securely throned on heights of contemplation - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

When all echoes of the chase had died - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

Where the brown buzzard flies - Emma Lazarus "The South"

O'ergrown by creeping tendrils and rank moss - Emma Lazarus "The South"

His inspiration and his best reward - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]

His Art's deep secret and clear crown - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]

In my deep heart harbor quite unguessed - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]

Children draw about the empty hearth - Emma Lazarus "To R. W. E."

Not a vision nor a prayer - Emma Lazarus "Work"

Fills her days with duties done - Emma Lazarus "Work"


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