"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

[View this email on a browser]( [Forward to a friend]( [facebook-icon]( [tumblr-icon]( [twitter-icon]( July 22, 2018 [The New Colossus]( [Emma Lazarus]( 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!” [Like this on Facebook]( [Share via Twitter]( This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem “The New Colossus” was first published in 1903 in The New York Times. Emma Lazarus was born on July 22, 1849. She is the author of Songs of a Semite (The American Hebrew, 1882), Admetus and Other Poems (Hurd and Houghton, 1871), and others. She died on November 17, 1887. Engraving by T. Johnson, 1872. Courtesy of The New York Historical Society. [more-at-poets]( Poetry by Lazarus [The Poems of Emma Lazarus]( (Dover Publications, 2015) “I, Too” by Langston Hughes [read-more]( “Let Me Try Again” by Javier Zamora [read-more]( “Day of the Refugios” by Alberto Ríos [read-more]( July Guest Editor: Adrian Matejka Thanks to Adrian Matejka, author of Map to the Stars (Penguin Press, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about [Matejka]( and our [guest editors for the year.]( Help Support Poem-a-Day If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a [monthly donation]( or [one-time gift]( to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today’s poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! [Small-Blue-RGB-poets.org-Logo]( Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit [Poets.org](. You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click [here](. © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038