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).
