Quote by Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus

American Poet (July 22, 1849 - November 19, 1887)




Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American poet and Georgist from New York City. She wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" in 1883; its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty installed in 1903, a decade and a half after Lazarus's death,. The last stanza of the sonnet was set to music by Irving Berlin as the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" for the 1949 musical Miss Liberty, which was based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World).


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