| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35139 |
| QUOTATION: | 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!” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), U.S. poet. The New Colossus (l. 10–14). . .
America in Poetry. Charles Sullivan, ed. (1988) Harry N. Abrams. |
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