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The Poems of Emma Lazarus in two volumes

Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887)

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VOL. I. NARRATIVE, LYRIC, AND DRAMATIC.
  
EPOCHS.
  
HOW LONG?
  
HEROES.
  
ADMETUS.
  
TANNHÄUSER.
  
LINKS.
  
MATINS.
  
SAINT ROMUALDO.
  
AFTERNOON.
  
PHANTASIES
  
ON THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT IN ENGLAND TO LORD BYRON.
  
ARABESQUE.
  
AGAMEMNON'S TOMB.
  
SIC SEMPER LIBERATORIBUS!
  
DON RAFAEL.
  
OFF ROUGH POINT.
  
MATER AMABILIS.
  
FOG.
  
THE ELIXIR.
  
SONG.
  
SPRING LONGING.
  
THE SOUTH.
  
SPRING STAR.
  
A JUNE NIGHT.
  
MAGNETISM.
  
AUGUST MOON.
  
SUNRISE.
  
A MASQUE OF VENICE.
  
AUTUMN SADNESS.
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SONNETS.
  
ECHOES.
  
SUCCESS.
  
THE NEW COLOSSUS.
  
VENUS OF THE LOUVRE.
  
CHOPIN.
  
SYMPHONIC STUDIES.
  
LONG ISLAND SOUND.
  
DESTINY.
  
1879.
  
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.
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THE SPAGNOLETTO.
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ACT I.
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SCENE I.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
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ACT II.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
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ACT III.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
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ACT IV.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
 5. 
SCENE V.
 6. 
SCENE VI.
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ACT V.
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SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
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VOL II. JEWISH POEMS: TRANSLATIONS
  
THE NEW YEAR.
  
THE CROWING OF THE RED COCK.
  
IN EXILE.
  
IN MEMORIAM—REV. J. J. LYONS.
  
THE VALLEY OF BACA.
  
THE BANNER OF THE JEW.
  
THE GUARDIAN OF THE RED DISK.
  
THE NEW EZEKIEL.
  
THE CHOICE.
  
THE WORLD'S JUSTICE.
  
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE.
  
THE FEAST OF LIGHTS.
  
GIFTS.
  
BAR KOCHBA.
  
1492.
  
THE BIRTH OF MAN.
  
RASCHI IN PRAGUE.
  
THE DEATH OF RASCHI.
  
AN EPISTLE.
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BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON.
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I. THE EXODUS. (AUGUST 3, 1492.)
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II. TREASURES.
 3. 
III. THE SOWER.
 4. 
IV. THE TEST.
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V. CURRENTS.
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VI. THE PROPHET.
 7. 
VII. CHRYSALIS.
  
TO CARMEN SYLVA.
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THE DANCE TO DEATH;
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ACT I.
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SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
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ACT II.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
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ACT III.
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SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
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ACT IV.
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SCENE I.
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ACT. V.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
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A TRANSLATION AND TWO IMITATIONS.
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I. DONNA CLARA.
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II. DON PEDRILLO.
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III FRA PEDRO.

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VII. CHRYSALIS.

1. Long, long has the Orient-Jew spun around his helplessness the cunningly enmeshed web of Talmud and Kabbala.

2. Imprisoned in dark corners of misery and oppression, closely he drew about him the dust-gray filaments, soft as silk and stubborn as steel, until he lay death-stiffened in mummied seclusion.

3. And the world has named him an ugly worm, shunning the blessed daylight.

4. But when the emancipating springtide

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breathes wholesome, quickening airs, when the Sun of Love shines out with cordial fires, lo, the Soul of Israel bursts her cobweb sheath, and flies forth attired in the winged beauty of immortality.

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