Occupation: Poet Birth: July 22, 1849 Death: November 19, 1887
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..
Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned..
Until we are all free, we are none of us free..
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird..
Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate....
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor ….
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of brigh….
When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire..
The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars t….
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty w….
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain..
There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past..
The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; i….
Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the ….
Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting..
I am never going to write for the sake of writing..
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word..
I seem to have always one little window looking but into life..
My own curiosity and interest are insatiable..
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt..
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tem….