Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems

edited by john hollander

from Poems and Translations (1867)

Niagara

Niagara River Below the Falls

from Admetus and Other Poems (1871)

Florence Nightingale

Dreams

On a Tuft of Grass

In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport

In a Swedish Graveyard

The Garden of Adonis

Morning

Exultation

Sonnet

The Day of Dead Soldiers

from Poems (1889)

from Epochs

I. Youth

II. Regret

IV. Storm

How Long?

Heroes

Links

Phantasies

Arabesque

Off Rough Point

Fog

Song

The South

Magnetism

August Moon

A Masque of Venice

Sonnets

Echoes

Success

The New Colossus

Venus of the Louvre

Chopin

Symphonic Studies

Long Island Sound

Destiny

From One Augur to Another

The Cranes of Ibycus

Critic and Poet

St. Michael's Chapel

Life and Art

Sympathy

Youth and Death

Age and Death

City Visions

Influence

Restlessness

The New Year

In Exile

In Memoriam—Rev. J.J. Lyons

The Banner of the Jew

The Guardian of the Red Disk

The Valley of Baca

The New Ezekiel

Bar Kochba

1492

The Feast of Lights

Gifts

By the Waters of Babylon

I. The Exodus

II. Treasures

III. The Sower

IV. The Test

V. Currents

VI. The Prophet

VII. Chrysalis

Uncollected Poems

Outside the Church

Spring Joy

Scenes in the Wood

The Winds

Phantasmagoria

Under the Sea

The Christmas Tree

The Will-o'-the-Wisp

Grotesque

The Taming of the Falcon

Progress and Poverty

To R.W.E.

Assurance

Translations

Donna Clara [Heine]

Song [Heine]

from The North Sea, First Cyclus: II. Twilight [Heine]

Night-Piece [Solomon Ben Judah Gabirol]

from On the Voyage to Jerusalem: To the West Wind [Abdul Hassan Judah Ben Ha-Levi]

from Extracts from the Book of Tarshish, or "Necklace of Pearls" [Moses Ben Ezra]

Biographical Note

Note on the Texts

Notes