Emma Lazarus Reality Poems
- 1. About Emma Lazarus. (written For "the Century Magazine")
Born July 22, 1849; Died November 19, 1887.
... - 2. Phantasies
I. Evening.
Rest, beauty, stillness: not a waif of a cloud
From gray-blue east sheer to the yellow west-
... - 3. Reality
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.
... - 4. Confused Dreams
O strange, dim other-world revealed to us,
Beginning there where ends reality,
Lying ‘twixt life and death, and populous
... - 5. Aspiration
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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