Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.
VII. The Modern Period
- Bar Kochba—Emma Lazarus
- The Jewish Exile—Leon Hühner
- The Jewish Pilgrim—Frances Browne
- The Arch of Titus—Harry Wolfsohn (Trans. Horace M. Kallen from the Hebrew)
- Tourist and Cicerone—Ludwig August Frankl (Trans. Henry Cohen)
- Judea—Charles M. Wallington
- The Tombs of the Fathers—James Montgomery
- The Wandering Jew—David Levi
- The Sentinel of the Ages—Ibbie McColm Wilson
- Before Battle—Samuel Roth
- The Jew—George Alfred Townsend
- The Everlasting Jew—Henry B. Sommer
- Israel—Ida Goldsmith Morris
- Israel Forsaken—Charles Leon Gumpert
- Puissance of the Jew—C. W. Wynne
- Honor of the Jews—William Hodson
- Mock on! Mock on!—William Blake
- “His People”—Anonymous
- The Jew is True—Joaquin Miller
- O Israel—Robert Loveman
- The Everlasting Jew—Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Jews—Anonymous
- Israel’s Spiritual Lamp—George Eliot
- The Spirit of Hebraism—From the Hebrew of Harry Wolfsohn (Trans. H. B. Ehrmann)
- Zion’s Universal Temple—Harry Weiss
- A Song of Israel—J. H. Cuthbert
- The Fated Race—Anonymous
- People of Zion—Marie Harrold Garrison
- Israel’s Mission—Eve Davieson
- To Young Israel—M. Osias
- The Mystic Tie—Max Meyerhardt
- My Heritage—Cora Wilburn
- Shema-Yisroel-Adonai-Elohenu Adonai-Echod—Nathan Bernstein
- Judaeis Vita Aeterna—Charles N. Lurie
- “The Children of the Pale”—Anonymous
- Judah—George R. Du Bois
- The Chosen Ones of Israel—Park Benjamin
- The Star of Discontent—X.
- They Call Us Jews—Milton Goldsmith
- The Jew’s Appeal to the Christian—J. W. Blencowe, Jr.
- The Jew to Jesus—Florence Kiper Frank
- Moses and Jesus—Israel Zangwill
- Lines to an Anti-Semite—Edward Sydney Tybee
- I Would Reply—Milton Goldsmith
- “Only a Jew”—P. H.
- Thou Art a Jew—I. N. L.
- Israel—Israel Zangwill
- Israel—Max Meyerhardt
- The Jews of England (1290–1902)—Israel Zangwill
- The Right of Asylum—Stephen Phillips
- The Jewish Soldier—Alice Lucas
- Israel and Columbia—John J. McCabe
- The Jew in America—Felix N. Gerson
- The Ghetto-Jew—Rufus Learsi
- The Melting Pot—Berton Braley
- A Call to the Builders—Helen Gray Cone
- O Long the Way—Morris Rosenfeld
- The Candle Seller—Morris Rosenfeld
- The Jewish May—Morris Rosenfeld
- “The Light in the Eyes”—Oscar Loeb
- “Yes, He’s a Jew”—John Paul Cosgrave
- The Jew to the Gentile—Sara Messing Stern
- The Yellow Badge—Ruth Schechter Alexander
- A Tribute to the Jews—Rufus C. Hopkins
- At Ellis Island—Margaret Chanler Aldrich
- Ellis Island—James Oppenheim
- At the Gate—Nathan F. Spielvogel
- The Magic Words—Melvin G. Winstock
- Shema Yisrael Adonay-Elohainu Adonay-Echod—Ibbie McColm Wilson
- Be Thou a Jew—Samuel E. Loveman
- The Chosen—Elizabeth McMurtrie Dinwiddie
- God’s Chosen People—Adapted by Joel Blau
- Our Password—Isidore G. Ascher
- Only a Jew—David Banks Sickles
- “Jew”—George Vaux Bacon
- Recognition—Miriam Teichner
- Is It True?—Marie Harrold Garrison
- In the Hour of Need—Leto (In the Graphic)
- The Little Jew—Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Only a Jew—Anonymous
- Holy Cross Day—Robert Browning
- The Guardian of the Red Disk—Emma Lazarus
- Rabbi Ben Ezra—Robert Browning
- The Angel—Dorothy S. Silverman
- A Legend—Jehoash (Trans. Elias Lieberman)
- The Rabbi’s Song—Rudyard Kipling
- A Sonnet—M. L. R. Breslar
- The Hebrew Mind—M. L. R. Breslar
- Who Gives in Love—Isidor Wise
- An Invocation—Isidore G. Ascher
- Adas Israel—M. Beyer
- Poetry—Louis Untermeyer
- Our Heritage—Isidore G. Ascher
- Israel’s Heritage—Ida Goldsmith Morris
- Fin de Siècle—Anonymous
- Hope and Faith—Isaac Leib Perez (Trans. Henry Goodman)
- Not by Power—Mary M. Cohen
- Lines—Alice Rhine
- The Glory of God—Rebekah Hyneman
- Lessons of the Past—Harry Weiss
- Rodef Shalom—W. G. Skillman
- The New Temple—Louis Marshall
- Consecration Hymn—R. Wagner
- The Kingdom of God—Edward Bulwer Lytton
- Rebecca’s Hymn—Sir Walter Scott
- A Jewish Family—William Wordsworth
- Rebecca, the Jewess—Clark B. Cochrane
- The American Jewess—Albert Ulmann
- Jewess—Joaquin Miller
- The Jewess—Allan Davis
- Orientale—William Henley
- An Oriental Maiden—J. O. Jenkyns
- The Maid of the Ghetto—Anonymous
- The Jewish Mother—A Daughter of Judah
- Like unto Sharon’s Roses—Rufus Learsi
- I saw a Maiden Sweet and Fair—Rufus Learsi
- Lines to a Jewish Child—C. D.
- Rachel—Matthew Arnold
- Rachel—Anonymous
- Kalich, Inheritor of Tragedy—Ripley D. Saunders
- To the Memory of Grace Aguilar—Anonymous
- Moses Mendelssohn—Miriam Del Banco
- Heine—A. R. Aldrich
- Heine—George Sylvester Viereck
- Heinrich Heine—Ludwig Lewisohn
- To Heinrich Heine—George Alexander Kohut
- Ernest Renan—Mary Darmesteter
- The Jews’ Cemetery on the Lido—John Addington Symonds
- The Jewish Cemetery at Newport—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- France’s Shame—B. B. Usher
- To Dreyfus Vindicated—Robert Underwood Johnson
- Dreyfus—Edwin Markham
- Dreyfus—Florence Earle Coates
- Let Us Forget—K. M.
- The God of Israel—C. M. Kohan
- The Jews in Russia—Edward Doyle
- On the Russian Persecution of the Jews—Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Russia and the Jews—Punch
- The Kishineff Massacre—Rose Strauss
- On the Massacre—Chayim Nachman Byalik
- God and His Martyrs—Chayim Nachman Byalik
- The Jewish Martyrs—W. V. B.
- The Persecuted Jew—Stephen Taylor Dekins
- In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth—Anonymous
- How Long?—Israel Cohen
- Israel in Russia—Arthur Guiterman
- The Massacre of the Jews—R. A. Levy
- How Long, O Lord?—Elias Lieberman
- In Exile—Emma Lazarus
- A Cry from Russia—Hermine Schwed
- To Russia—Joaquin Miller
- The Slaughter of the Jews—A. J. Waterhouse
- The Crowing of the Red Cock—Emma Lazarus
- A Hymn for the Relief of Israel—Canon Jenkins
- To the Czar—a Prophecy—Ida (Mrs. Isidor) Straus
- To Forgive Is Divine—M. L. R. Breslar
- “Blood” v. “Bullion”—Punch
- The Jews of Bucharest—Edward Sydney Tybee
- To Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania)—Emma Lazarus
- Lines on Carmen Sylva—Emma Lazarus
- The Russian Jewish Rabbi—(Trans. Herman Bernstein)
- “Mai-Ko-Mashma-Lon”—Abraham Raisin (Trans. Henry Greenfield)
- The Jewish Soldier—Alice Lucas
- B’nai B’rith—Miriam del Banco
- B’nai B’rith—Rosa Strauss
- On Attempting to Convert the Jews to Christianity—Anonymous
- Autumn Songs—S. Frug (Trans. Alice Stone Blackwell)
- Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves—Alter Abelson
- Nature and the Poet—S. Frug
- On the Grave of Michael Gordon—S. Frug
- Sand and Stars—S. Frug
- The False Hope—Horace M. Kallen
- Out of the Depths—Joseph Jasin
- As the Stars and the Sands—S. Frug (Trans. Joseph Jasin)
- “…Whom You Are to Blame”—P. M. Raskin
- Side by Side—Isabella R. Hess
- The Young Rabbi—E. C. L. Browne
- “…and Give Thee Peace”—Florence Weisberg
- Twenty-one Years of Rescue Work—Alice Lucas
- A Call to Israel—Cora Wilburn
- Meditations at Twilight—Joseph Leiser
- The New Jewish Hospital at Hamburg—Heinrich Heine
- The Rose of Sharon—Harry Weiss
- “The Age of Toleration”—Arthur Upton
- Intolerance—Ray Trum Nathan
- They Tell Me—Ezekiel Leavitt (Trans. from the Hebrew by Alice Stone Blackwell)
- Gifts—Emma Lazarus
- Hebrew Cradle Song—Ezekiel Leavitt (Trans. Alice Stone Blackwell)
- Jewish Lullaby—Eugene Field
- Patriotism—(Trans. Robert Needham Cust)
- Optimism—I. Z. Josephson
- To My Lyre—Joseph Massel
- To Walter Lionel de Rothschild on His Bar-Mitzvah—Louis B. Abrahams
- Sonnet—Canon Jenkins
- Sir Moses Montefiore—E. Yancey Cohen
- “Groups of radiant angels soaring”—Miriam Del Banco
- “Is life worth living?”—Punch
- “Not ’mid the clash of arms he won”—Louis Meyerhardt
- “I saw—’twas in a dream, the other night”—Ambrose Bierce
- Jesse Seligman—Noah Davis
- Benjamin Artom—Re Henry
- Aaron Levy Green—Anonymous
- Baroness de Rothschild—Emily Marion Harris
- Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield—Punch
- Peace—and Honor—Herman C. Merivale
- Leopold Zunz—J. F.
- Moritz Steinschneider—George Alexander Kohut
- Simeon Singer—John Chapman
- My Father’s Bible—George Alexander Kohut
- David Kaufmann—George Alexander Kohut
- Gustav Gottheil—George Alexander Kohut
- Sonnet—George Alexander Kohut
- Solomon Schechter—Alter Abelson
- Emma Lazarus—Richard Watson Gilder
- “Dear bard and prophet, that thy rest is deep”—Richard Watson Gilder
- Under No Skies But Ours—Helen Gray Cone
- “Once more a singing soul’s most airy vessel”—Allan Eastman Cross
- “A rare, sweet daughter of a wondrous race”—Minot Judson Savage
- “Fire from high, holy heaven down-drawn”—James Maurice Thompson
- “Couldst thou have lived to share with us this hour”—Henry Cohen
- Joseph Joachim—Robert Bridges
- Frederic David Mocatta—James Mew
- Mrs. Ellis A. Franklin—Anonymous
- Oscar Cohen—H. B. Gayfer
- Leo N. Levi—George Alexander Kohut
- Esther J. Ruskay—George Alexander Kohut
- Joseph Mayor Asher—George Alexander Kohut
- Louis Loeb—Louis Marshall
- Josef Israels—Elias Lieberman
- Phédre—Oscar Wilde
- Mayer Sulzberger—Felix N. Gerson
- Isaac M. Wise—Walter Hurt
- “Above the grief of Israel soars a voice”—Ida Goldsmith Morris
- “Peace and remembrance!”—Edna Dean Proctor
- “Afar the reaches of our land one day”—Harry Weiss
- “Why look ye to the dead? Awake!”—Albert Frank Hoffmann
- Ida Straus—Alter Abelson
- “She gladly shared his cup of death”—Bernard Gruenstein
- “As side by side they traveled through the years”—Anne P. L. Field
- “I cannot leave thee, husband”—Solomon Solis Cohen
- “Beloved, you must go—ask not to stay”—Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
- Julia Richman—Helen Gray Cone
- Myer Davis—Isaac Lazarowich
- Simon Wolf—Felix N. Gerson
- To Simon Wolf—George Alexander Kohut
- To Simon Wolf on His Eightieth Birthday—George Alexander Kohut