Emma Lazarus Reality Poems

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    Born July 22, 1849; Died November 19, 1887.



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    I. Evening.

    Rest, beauty, stillness: not a waif of a cloud
    From gray-blue east sheer to the yellow west-
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    These things alone endure;
    'They are the solid facts,' that we may grasp,
    Leading us on and upward if we clasp
    And hold them firm and sure.
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    O strange, dim other-world revealed to us,
    Beginning there where ends reality,
    Lying ‘twixt life and death, and populous

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    Dark lies the earth, and bright with worlds the sky:
    That soft, large, lustrous star, that first outshone,
    Still holds us spelled with potent sorcery.

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Total 5 Reality Poems by Emma Lazarus

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Soul 85 Earth 85 Heart 74 Light 73 Long 71 Love 70 Life 70 I Love You 70 World 67 Sweet 64

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