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Poem by Emma Lazarus


Echoes


Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope, 
The freshness of the elder lays, the might 
Of manly, modern passion shall alight 
Upon my Muse’s lips, nor may I cope 
(Who veiled and screened by womanhood must grope) 
With the world’s strong-armed warriors and recite 
The dangers, wounds, and triumphs of the fight; 
Twanging the full-stringed lyre through all its scope. 
But if thou ever in some lake-floored cave 
O’erbrowed by rocks, a wild voice wooed and heard, 
Answering at once from heaven and earth and wave, 
Lending elf-music to thy harshest word, 
Misprize thou not these echoes that belong 
To one in love with solitude and song.



Emma Lazarus


Emma Lazarus's other poems:
  1. Saint Romualdo
  2. Marriage Bells
  3. The World's Justice
  4. On the Proposal to Erect a Monument in England to Lord Byron
  5. Don Rafael


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Lewis Carroll Echoes ("Lady Clara Vere de Vere")
  • George Russell Echoes ("THE MIGHT that shaped itself through storm and stress")

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