The New Colossus

Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus portrait

1849 to 1887

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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

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