Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. 2, Jewish poems : translations [electronic text]
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- Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. 2, Jewish poems : translations [electronic text]
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- Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887
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- Boston: New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- 1889
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"Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. 2, Jewish poems : translations [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAK3042.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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Heaven wears a dusky raiment, and the moonAppeareth dead— her tomb is yonder cloud,And weeping shades come after, like the peopleWho mourn with tearful grief a noble queen.But look! the thunder pierced night's close-linked mail,His keen-tipped lance of lightning brandishing;He hovers like a seraph-conqueror. —Dazed by the flaming splendor of his wings,In rapid flight as in a whirling dance,The black cloud-ravens hurry scared away.So, though the powers of darkness chain my soul,My heart, a hero, chafes and breaks its bonds.