The Poems of Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus | The Poetry Foundation
In the 1880s, she took up the cause—through both poetry and prose—against the persecution of Jews in Russia, publishing a polemical pamphlet The Century (1882) ...
The New Colossus | The Poetry Foundation
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Copyright Credit: n/a. Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings ( ...
what a shining host, great Duke, shall guard Thy consecrated throne, for all the lives Thy mercy spares, for all the tears thy ruth Stops at the source. Behold ...
Emma Lazarus Poems - My poetic side
Emma Lazarus Poems · 1492 · Assurance · Chopin · City Visions · Critic and Poet: an Epilogue · Destiny · Echoes · From One Augur to Another · In the Jewish ...
Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems - Library of America
Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems · from Poems and Translations (1867) Niagara Niagara River Below the Falls · from Admetus and Other Poems (1871) Florence ...
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus - Poems - Poets.org
Add to anthology ... The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. ... With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe ...
[POEM] The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus : r/Poetry - Reddit
Nice poem but given what we know about American foreign policy and how it treats its own people the sentiment seems kind of laughable now.
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist ...
12 Poems by Emma Lazarus, creator of “The New Colossus”
Come closer, kind, white, long-familiar friend, Embrace me, fold me to thy broad, soft breast. ... Mild eyes of blessing wooing to my rest. ... Thy ...
The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Project Gutenberg
Your name will be the highest in the land, Oftenest, fondest on my grateful lips, After the name of him you die to save. What! silent still? Since when has ...
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II - Dover Publications
The highly respected writer and intellectual corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson and was an advocate for indigent Jewish refugees and a forerunner of the ...
Work by Emma Lazarus - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Add to anthology ... Yet life is not a vision nor a prayer, But stubborn work; she may not shun her task. ... Her portion and her work achieved, to ask. ... When, ...
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for ...
Emma Lazarus Project - American Jewish Historical Society
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” proclaims the Mother of Exiles, in words that reverberate today… Continue Reading ...
Biography: Emma Lazarus - National Women's History Museum
As a Jewish American writer and activist, Emma Lazarus has been widely recognized for her work. However, she is most famous for her poem, “The New Colossus ...
Emma Lazarus | Jewish Women's Archive
Written in 1883, her celebrated poem, "The New Colossus," is engraved on a plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Over the years, the sonnet has ...
Emma Lazarus - Broadview Press
Ramona · Herland and Related Writings · Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl · The House of Mirth · The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories · The Awakening and ...
"The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus - SALT Project
"The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus ... The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. ... With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your ...
Emma Lazarus - Poet - Poem Hunter
Emma Lazarus Poems · 1. The New Colossus. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, · 2. Destiny. 1856 · 3. Echoes. Late-born and woman- ...
On Emma Lazarus's “The New Colossus” - Poetry Society of America
Or, more simply: Can the voice of a woman be universal? Emma Lazarus wrote a poem embraced as universal. "The New Colossus" shaped and continues to shape ...