The poems of Emma Lazarus contributed towards shaping the self-image of the United States as well as how the country understands the needs of those who emigrate to the United States. Her themes produced sensitivity and enduring lessons regarding immigrants and their need for dignity. This edition of poems is divided in two volumes, first one being Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic, while second one contains Jewish Poems and Translations.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1 – Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic

Emma Lazzarus, a Biography

Epochs

Admetus

Tannhauser

Matins

Saint Romualdo

Afternoon

Phantasies

On the Proposal to Erect a Monument in England to Lord Byron

Arabesque

Agamemnon's Tomb

Sic Semper Liberatoribus!

Don Rafael

Off Rough Point

Mater Amabilis

Fog

The Elixir

Song

Spring Longing

The South

Soring Star

A June Night

Magnetism

August Moon

Sunrise

A Masque of Venice

Autumn Sadness

Sonnets

Symphonic Studies

Long Island Sound

Destiny

From One Augur to Another

The Cranes of Ibycus

Critic and Poet

St. Michael's Chapel

Life and Art

Sympathy

Youth and Death

Age and Death

City Visions

Influence

Restlessness

The Spagnoletto

Volume 2 – Jewish Poems and Translations

The New Year

The Crowing of the Red Cock

In Exile

In Memoriam – Rev. J. J. Lyons

The Valley of Baca

The Banner of the Jew

The Guardian of the Red Disk

The New Ezekiel

The Choice

The World's Justice

The Supreme Sacrifice

The Feast of Lights

Gifts

Bar Kochba

The Birth of Man

Raschi in Pregue

The Death of Raschi

An Epistle

By the Waters of Babylon

To Carmen Sylva

The Dance to Death

Translations from the Hebrew Poets of Medaeval Spain

To a Detractor

Fragment

Stanzas

Wine and Grief

Moses Ben Esra (About 1100)

In the Night

From the "Divan"

Love Song of Alcharisi

Nachum

A Translation and Two Imitations

Translations from Petrarch

In Morte II. – On the Death of Cardinal

Translations from Alfred de Musset

Notes to "Epistle" of Joshua Ibn Vives of Allorqui