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Emma Lazarus Biography

Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American poet, writer, translator, and Georgist from New York City. She wrote the sonnet The New Colossus in 1883, which includes "lines of world-wide welcome". 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 (Liberty Enlightening the World).

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

Bird, Define, Men, Stirred, Study

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

Emblem, Hanukkah, Light, Psalm, Psalms, Word

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

Pain, Rapture, Sharpest, Surcease

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Form, Jew, Jews, Language, Nationality

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.

Inspirational, Freedom, Tired, Golden, Lamp, Teeming

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Marginalization, Free

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Impassioned, Poetry, Simple

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

Naught, Small, Soft, Sting, Turn, Turns

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

Curiosity, Insatiable, Interest

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

Gives, Giving, Lie, Looking, Lying, Past

The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

Eagles, Force, Golden, Light, Space, Unto

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

Grief, Morning, Peace, Skies, Transient

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

Angel, Fire, Lightning, Living, Wind

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate. . .

Change, Fate, Mother, Thou, Years