Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free .
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Poetry).
The text of that now famous poem, The New Colossus, appears in this free-verse biography, illustrated in an exquisite folk art style.
Originally a gift from France to celebrate our shared national struggles for liberty, the statue, thanks to Emma\'s poem, came to define us as a nation that welcomes immigrants.
In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that gave a Voice to the Statue of Liberty. . .
Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free