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Life and Art

Not while the fever of the blood is strong,

The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song.

Not then she bids his trembling lips express The aching gladness, the voluptuous pain.

Life is his poem then; flesh, sense, and brain One full-stringed lyre attuned to happiness.

But when the dream is done, the pulses fail,

The day's illusion, with the day's sun set,

He, lonely in the twilight, sees the pale Divine Consoler, featured like Regret,

Enter and clasp his hand and kiss his brow.

Then his lips ope to sing—as mine do now.

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Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish ca…
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