Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The… — Emma Lazarus
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-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
The New Colossus · 1883
★ 7.2Inscription on the Statue of Liberty in New York City.
Provenance
Current citation
Lazarus, Emma. "The New Colossus." Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems, edited by John Hollander. Library of America, 2005, I. 10.
Original citation
Lazarus, Emma. "The New Colossus." Statue of Liberty published catalog. c. 1883, I. 10.
