Born on this day – Emma Lazarus:

Emma Lazarus

Writer

July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887

Credits:

Author of The New Colossus (1883),

inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed at the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903.

The New Colossus (November 2, 1883)

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Poems:

1492; Assurance; Chopin; City Visions; Critic and Poet: an Epilogue; Destiny; Echoes; From One Augur to Another; In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport; Influence; Life and Art; Long Island Sound; Marriage Bells; St Michael's Chapel; Success; Sympathy; Symphonic Studies (After Schumann); The Cranes of Ibicus; The Crowing of the Red Cock; The New Colossus; The New Ezekiel; The Supreme Sacrifice; The Taming of the FalconTo R.W.E.; Venus of the Louvre.

Books:

Poems in Prose (1887); Complete Poems with a Memoir (1888).