The New Colossus (poem)

  • Type: Poem
  • Length: 14 lines



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Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1903/00/00 A bronze plaque inscribed with the "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus is mounted inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." - EL Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty National Monument

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Particulars for The New Colossus (poem):
Art Type Poem writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is typically rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme and stanzaic structure.
Poem Type Sonnet


The New Colossus (poem)

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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!"

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