Poem by Emma Lazarus

Venus of the Louvre

Down the long hall she glistens like a star, 
The foam-born mother of Love, transfixed to stone, 
Yet none the less immortal, breathing on. 
Time’s brutal hand hath maimed but could not mar. 
When first the enthralled enchantress from afar 
Dazzled mine eyes, I saw not her alone, 
Serenely poised on her world-worshipped throne, 
As when she guided once her dove-drawn car,-- 
But at her feet a pale, death-stricken Jew, 
Her life adorer, sobbed farewell to love. 
Here Heine wept! Here still he weeps anew, 
Nor ever shall his shadow lift or move, 
While mourns one ardent heart, one poet-brain, 
For vanished Hellas and Hebraic plain.

1. The New Ezekiel
2. Saint Romualdo
3. On the Proposal to Erect a Monument in England to Lord Byron
4. Magnetism
5. August Moon

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