On it are words from the poem "The New Colossus" written by Emma Lazarus in eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

In eighteen eighty-three, American poet Emma Lazarus wrote a poem as if Lady Liberty were speaking.

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Other new members include Emma Lazarus, the great nineteenth century Jewish poet.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

It was at this time that a young woman named Emma Lazarus, whose own family fled persecution from Europe generations earlier, took up the cause of these new immigrants.

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