| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Judah’s Hallowed Bards | | By Aubrey De Vere |
| | | LET those who will hang rapturously o’er | |
| The flowing eloquence of Plato’s page; | |
| Repeat, with flashing eyes, the sounds that pour | |
| From Homer’s verse as with a torrent’s rage; | |
| Let those who list ask Tully to assuage | 5 |
| Wild hearts with high-wrought periods, and restore | |
| The reign of rhetoric; or maxims sage | |
| Winnow from Seneca’s sententious lore. | |
| Not these, but Judah’s hallowed bards, to me | |
| Are dear: Isaiah’s noble energy; | 10 |
| The temperate grief of Job; the artless strain | |
| Of Ruth and pastoral Amos; the high songs | |
| Of David; and the tale of Joseph’s wrongs, | |
| Simply, pathetic, eloquently plain. | | | | |
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