Emma Lazarus Quotes

Emma Lazarus was an American poet and Georgist from New York City.

She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written 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.



✵ 22. July 1849 – 19. November 1887
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The New Colossus
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The New Colossus
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Famous Emma Lazarus Quotes

“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.”

Emma Lazarus

From her obituary in Century Magazine

“No man had ever heard a nightingale,
When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred
To study and define — what is a bird.”

Emma Lazarus

Critic and Poet: an Epilogue http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/critic-and-poet-an-epilogue/

Emma Lazarus Quotes

“Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.”

Emma Lazarus

From Critic and Poet - An Apologue

“Alas! we wake: one scene alone remains, —
The exiles by the streams of Babylon.”

Emma Lazarus

In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport

“The funeral and the marriage, now, alas!
We know not which is sadder to recall.”

Emma Lazarus

In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport

“No signs of life are here: the very prayers
Inscribed around are in a language dead.”

Emma Lazarus

In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-jewish-synagogue-at-newport/

“Lo — a black line of birds in wavering thread
Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!”

Emma Lazarus

The Cranes of Ibicus http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-cranes-of-ibicus/

“A lady 'twixt two knights' stone effigies,
And every day in dusky glory steeps
Their sculptured slumber of five centuries.”

Emma Lazarus

St Michael's Chapel http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/st-michael-s-chapel/

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