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Lady Liberty Poster |
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P101 Lady LibertyThis
title shows America’s most famous lady
accompanied by the full text of the poem
The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus
(1849-1887). She wrote it in 1883 to help
raise money for the Statue of Liberty
pedestal. It is now inscribed on a plaque
hanging inside that pedestal. Below the
sonnet, on the poster, a small caption
presents the story behind it.
Author John T. Cunningham wrote that the
"Statue of Liberty was not conceived and
sculpted as a symbol of immigration, but it
quickly became so as immigrant ships passed
under the statue." However, it was Lazarus’s
poem that permanently stamped on Lady
Liberty the role of unofficial greeter of
incoming immigrants.. |
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The New Colossus
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-tossed to
me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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