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Quotes from The Poems of Emma Lazarus — Emma Lazarus

1849–1887 United States

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To his sunny creed
A thousand gloomy, warring sects succeed.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

Then Nature shaped a poet's heart — a lyre
From out whose chords the lightest breeze that blows
Drew trembling music.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

A lady 'twixt two knights' stone effigies,
And every day in dusky glory steeps
Their sculptured slumber of five centuries.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

Down the long hall she glistens like a star,
The foam-born mother of Love, transfixed to stone,
Yet none the less immortal, breathing on.
Time's brutal hand hath maimed but could not mar.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned; this man is neither simple, sensuous, nor impassioned; therefore he is not a poet.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

Lo — a black line of birds in wavering thread
Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm,
The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

Night, and beneath star-blazoned summer skies
Behold the Spirit of the musky South,
A creole with still-burning, languid eyes,
Voluptuous limbs and incense-breathing mouth.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

The children of the prophets of the Lord,
Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate.
Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state,
The West refused them, and the East abhorred.
No anchorage the known world could afford.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

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