"these refugees in terms of the statue. The resulting sonnet, ""The New Colossus"", including the iconic lines ""Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"", is uniquely identified with the Statue of Liberty and is inscribed on a plaque in the museum in its base. Even with these efforts, fundraising lagged. Grover Cleveland, the governor of New York, vetoed a bill to provide $50,000 for the statue project in 1884. An attempt the next year to have Congress provide $100,000, sufficient to complete the project, also failed. The New York committee, with only $3,000 in the"
"The New Colossus ""The New Colossus"" is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. This poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the ""Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty"" to raise money for the pedestal's construction. Lazarus's contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts. Initially"
"to the forbidding colossus of Percy Bysshe Shelley's ""Ozymandias"". The poem is read aloud in the eponymous episode,""New Colossus"", in the 2016 Netflix web series ""The OA"". The poem was also recited in part in """" and referenced by the title of . The New Colossus ""The New Colossus"" is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. This poem was written as a donation to"
"sonnet ""The New Colossus"", now inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty Lazarus volunteered in the HEAS employment bureau; she eventually became a strong critic of the organization. Lazarus wrote of HEAS's Schiff Shelter on Wards Island, ""Not a drop of running water is to be found in the dormitories or refectories, or in any of the other buildings, except the kitchen. In all weathers, those who wish to wash their hands or to fetch or to fetch a cup of water, have to walk over several hundred feet of irregular, dirty ground, strewn with rubble and refuse,"
"the earliest volume of Jewish-American poetry. A review of ""Alide"" by ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"" was critical of Lazarus' style and elements of technique. Emma Lazarus Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist. She wrote the sonnet ""The New Colossus"" in 1883, which includes ""lines of world-wide welcome"". Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque on 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"
"Inside the statue, a plaque is engraved with words from ""The New Colossus"", the poem by Emma Lazarus: The national monument is located in Upper New York Bay east of Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey and southwest of Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan in New York City. Entrance is free, but there is a charge for the ferry service that all visitors must use. In 2007, a concession was granted to Statue Cruises to operate the transportation and ticketing facilities, replacing the Circle Line which had operated the service since 1953. The waters are patrolled"
"Der Messias (Klopstock) Der Messias (“The Messiah”) is an epic poem published from 1748 to 1773 by German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The poem consists of 19,458 dactylic hexameters, as compared with the 15,693 of Homer's ""Iliad"". At Schulpforta, the classical school Klopstock attended 1739–1745, the plan for the poem was formulated. The project reflected the influence of Johann Jakob Bodmer's translation of John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"", which Klopstock had read at the school. After developing his plan, Klopstock wrote a prose version of the first three cantos. After going to Leipzig in 1747, he recast the prose into dactylic"
"Lazarus's friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was put on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. On the plaque hanging inside the Statue of Liberty, the line ""Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!"" is missing a comma, and reads in Lazarus's manuscript ""Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"" since its unveiling in 1903. The plaque also describes itself as an engraving; it is actually a casting. The original manuscript is held by the American Jewish Historical"
"Concord Hymn ""Concord Hymn"" (original title was ""Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836"") is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of the Obelisk, a monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the Battle of Concord, the second in a series of battles and skirmishes on April 19, 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution. In October 1834, Emerson went to live with his step-grandfather Ezra Ripley in Concord, at what was later named The Old Manse— less than a hundred paces from the spot where the battle took place. In"
"the poem to music, which was performed at the worship service of President Obama's 2013 inauguration ceremony. Parts of the poem also appear in popular culture. The Broadway musical ""Miss Liberty"", with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, an immigrant himself, used the final stanza beginning ""Give me your tired, your poor"" as the basis for a song. It was also read in the 1941 film ""Hold Back the Dawn"" as well as being recited by the heroine in Alfred Hitchcock's wartime film ""Saboteur"". Harpist and singer Joanna Newsom indirectly references the poem in her 2015 song ""Sapokanikan,"" in contrast"
"its original publication of 1594. The dedication is followed by ""The Argument"", a prose paragraph that summarizes the events preceding the start of the poem, which begins ""in media res"". The poem contains 1,855 lines, divided into 265 stanzas of seven lines each. The meter of each line is iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is ABABBCC, a format known as ""rhyme royal"", which has been used by Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton and John Masefield. The poem is set just before the establishment of the Roman Republic in 509 BC. The poem's locations are Rome, Ardea, twenty-four miles"
"decided in favor of the motion at the end. A slight majority of the audience opposed the motion, 54% before and 52% after. The debate motion was a play on the most famous lines (""Give me your tired ..."") of Emma Lazarus' poem ""The New Colossus"" which is on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty. At New America Foundation in 2011–12, Jacoby ""will focus on issues of immigration and social cohesion"" while retaining her positions at ImmigrationWorks. Tamar Jacoby Tamar Jacoby (born 1954) is known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. She is also president and CEO of"
"Miss Liberty Miss Liberty is a 1949 Broadway musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty (""Liberty Enlightening the World"") in 1886. The score includes the song ""Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor"", a musical setting of Emma Lazarus's sonnet ""The New Colossus"" (1883), which was placed at the base of the monument in 1903. In 1885, ""New York Herald"" publisher James Gordon Bennett assigns novice reporter Horace Miller to find the woman who served as Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's model for the"
"Odyssey The Odyssey (; ""Odýsseia"", in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the ""Iliad"", the other work ascribed to Homer. The ""Odyssey"" is fundamental to the modern Western canon; it is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature, while the ""Iliad"" is the oldest. Scholars believe the ""Odyssey"" was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths), king of Ithaca,"
"Vera, what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem where all nations and races come to worship and look back, compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labour and look forward!"" Zangwill thus combined the metaphor of the ""crucible"" or ""melting pot"" with a celebration of the United States as an ideal republic and a new promised land. The prophetic words of his Jewish protagonist against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty allude to Emma Lazarus's famous poem ""The New Colossus"" (1883), which celebrated the statue as a symbol of American democracy and"
"the time she became interested in her Jewish roots, she continued her purely literary and critical work in magazines with such articles as “Tommaso Salvini,” “Salvini's ‘King Lear,’ ” “Emerson's Personality,” “Heine, the Poet,” “A Day in Surrey with William Morris,” and others. Lines from her sonnet ""The New Colossus"" appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty which was placed in 1903. The sonnet was written in 1883 and donated to an auction, conducted by the ""Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty"" in order"
"""(repeat chorus)"" Our Delaware Our Delaware is a poem written by George Beswick Hynson, published in 1904. It comprises three verses, each honoring one of Delaware's three counties, with the fourth verse added by Donn Devine commemorating the American Revolution Bicentennial in 1976. It became the state song in 1925 by an act of the General Assembly. The musical score was composed by Will M. S. Brown specifically for the poem. Oh the hills of dear New Castle, Oh, our Delaware! Where the wheat fields break and billow, ""(repeat chorus)"" Dear old Sussex visions linger, ""(repeat chorus)"" From New Castle's"
"Society. The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet. The title of the poem and the first two lines refer to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, sometimes described as standing astride the harbor. The ""sea-washed, sunset gates"" are the mouths of the Hudson and East Rivers, to the west of Brooklyn. The ""imprisoned lightning"" refers to the electric light in the torch, then a novelty. The ""air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame"" refers to New York Harbor between New York City and Brooklyn, which were consolidated into one unit in 1898, 15 years after"
"language, whether in choice of words or in rhythmic cadence. Der Messias (Klopstock) Der Messias (“The Messiah”) is an epic poem published from 1748 to 1773 by German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The poem consists of 19,458 dactylic hexameters, as compared with the 15,693 of Homer's ""Iliad"". At Schulpforta, the classical school Klopstock attended 1739–1745, the plan for the poem was formulated. The project reflected the influence of Johann Jakob Bodmer's translation of John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"", which Klopstock had read at the school. After developing his plan, Klopstock wrote a prose version of the first three cantos. After going"
"the Venerable Bede celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is variously quoted: ""Quamdiu stat Colisæus, stat et Roma; quando cadet colisæus, cadet et Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus"" (""as long as the Colossus stands, so shall Rome; when the Colossus falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, so falls the world""). This is often mistranslated to refer to the Colosseum rather than the Colossus (as in, for instance, Byron's poem ""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage""). However, at the time that the Pseudo-Bede wrote, the masculine noun ""coliseus"" was applied to the statue rather than to"
"lit by the rich skies, all day. And after,"" ""Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance"" ""And wandering loveliness. He leaves a white"" ""Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance,"" ""A width, a shining peace, under the night."" The first three lines of the third poem appear engraved on the Memorial arch located at the entrance to the Royal Military College of Canada which commemorated the fallen ex-cadets from World War I onwards. The first eight lines of the third poem appear on Royal Naval Division War Memorial. The Dead (poem) The Dead is the name of two poems by"
"spare, grave, free from excessive decoration, and full of firmly controlled feeling."" In the fifteenth edition of ""Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"" (1980), nine sections of ""Ulysses"", comprising 36 of the poem's 70 lines, are quoted, compared to only six in the ninth edition (1891). Many readers have accepted the acclaimed last lines of ""Ulysses"" as inspirational. The poem's ending line has also been used as a motto by schools and other organisations. The final line is inscribed on a cross at Observation Hill, Antarctica, to commemorate explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his party, who died on their return trek from the"
"considered to have been written earlier. The inclusion of a number of Norse-influenced words, such as the compound ""hrimceald"" (ice-cold, from the Old Norse word ""hrimkaldr""), and some unusual spelling forms, has encouraged others to date the poem to the late 9th or early 10th century. The metre of the poem is of four-stress lines, divided between the second and third stresses by a caesura. Each caesura is indicated in the manuscript by a subtle increase in character spacing and with full stops, but modern print editions render them in a more obvious fashion. Like most Old English poetry, it"
"Ulysses (poem) ""Ulysses"" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted poem, it is popularly used to illustrate the dramatic monologue form. Facing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Ithaca, after his far-ranging travels. Despite his reunion with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus, Ulysses yearns to explore again. The character of Ulysses (in Greek, Odysseus) has been explored widely in literature. The adventures of Odysseus were first recorded"
"on a 7-foot-tall granite pedestal, was cast in the Ames Foundry in Chicopee, Massachusetts and was made from seven American Civil War cannons donated for the project by Congress. The statue, and the 1875 bridge, were dedicated on April 19, 1875 at a centennial recognition of the original battle of April 19, 1775. American poet James Russell Lowell wrote in his poem ""Lines"" (1849) of the graves of two of the three British soldiers who died at the bridge: But in 1910 residents of Concord placed a plaque to mark the graves using other lines from Lowell's poem: The grave"
"Boston Hymn ""Boston Hymn"" (full title: ""Boston Hymn, Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863"") is a poem by the American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson composed the poem in late 1862 and read it publicly in Boston Music Hall on January 1, 1863. It commemorates the Emancipation Proclamation issued earlier that day by President Abraham Lincoln, tying it and the broader campaign for the abolition of slavery to the Puritan notion of sacred destiny for America. In 1861 the American Civil War began, with a number of Southern states rebelling against the United States government (known as"
"Caesar"" (I, ii, 136–38) says of Caesar: (even if the ""walking"" may suggest a Colossus on land rather than spanning water). Shakespeare alludes to the Colossus also in ""Troilus and Cressida"" (V.5) and in ""Henry IV, Part 1"" (V.1). ""The New Colossus"" (1883), a sonnet by Emma Lazarus written on a cast bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903, contrasts the latter with: While these fanciful images feed the misconception, the mechanics of the situation reveal that the Colossus could not have straddled the harbour as described in Lemprière's ""Classical Dictionary"". If the"
"Come to the Waldorf Astoria ""Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria"" is a two-page poem by Langston Hughes, accompanied by illustrations by Walter Steinhilber, which takes the form of a parody of a magazine advertisement. The poem was first published in ""The New Masses"" in December 1931 and later in Hughes's autobiography of that time period, ""The Big Sea"". The poem is considered one of Hughes' most direct indictments of economic inequality of the 1930s. The first of six sections entitled ""Listen Hungry Ones!"" sets up the poem by taking quotes from the Vanity Fair advertisement and addressing those statements poor people"
"determinate theological or philological reasons to reject the 3rd century dating."""" The hymn is used in the Coptic liturgy to this day, as well as in the Armenian, Byzantine, Ambrosian, and Roman Rite liturgies. It was part of Sulpician custom that all classes ended with a recitation of this prayer. Besides the Greek text, ancient versions can be found in Coptic, Syriac, Armenian and Latin. Henri de Villiers finds in the term ""blessed"" a reference to the salutation by Elizabeth in Luke . ""Praesidium"" is translated as ""an assistance given in time of war by fresh troops in a strong"
"Matthew Abdy, a custodian of the town, and the poem listed an inventory of Abdy's estate. The poetic composition was first published in Weekly Rehearsal (Boston, Mass.), 3 Jan. 1732. He was re-published in the Gentlman's Magazine, May 2, 1732 and London Magazine (October 1732) and continued to be re-published throughout the 18th and 19th century. The song was anthologized in Louis Untermeyer's ""Early American Poets"" (2001). In 1769, Seccombe baptized slaves at St. Matthews. He went on to write the eulogies for the wives of Jonathan Belcher and Benjamin Green. He died at his home on Seccombes Island, west"
"its pre-territorial name, Deseret, both located on the 220-foot level. A stone at the 240-foot level of the monument is inscribed in (Our language, our country, our birthplace, Wales forever). The stone, imported from Wales, was donated by Welsh citizens of New York. Two other stones were presented by the Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York and the Sabbath School children of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia—the former quotes from the Bible verse Proverbs 10:7, ""The memory of the just is blessed"". Another inscription, this one sent by the Ottoman government, combines the works of"
"July 8, 1976 over Lake Michigan. The last stanza of this poem appears on Allen Ginsberg's gravestone, which is between the gravestones for Louis and Edith. Portraits of the Ginsberg family were taken by photographer Richard Avedon and exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery and the Israel Museum. Louis' poems appeared in ""The Nation,"" ""The New Republic,"" ""The New York Times,"" ""Munsey's Magazine,"" ""The Forum,"" ""Rutgers' Alumni Quarterly,"" ""The Philadelphia Inquirer,"" ""Contemporary Verse,"" ""The Masses,"" the ""New York Evening Post,"" ""Argosy,"" the ""Newark Evening News"" and other periodicals, as well as in ""Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology, Third Revised Edition"""
"The Anathemata The Anathemata is an epic poem by the British poet David Jones, first published in England in 1952. Along with 1937's ""In Parenthesis"", it is the text upon which Jones' reputation largely rests. The poem is composed of eight sections, which together narrate the thought processes of one cambrophile English Catholic at Mass over the span of roughly seven seconds. Section I: ""Rite and Fore-time"" begins during a mid-twentieth century Mass, but quickly shifts to contemplate prehistoric ritual and myth-making. In the following sections, ""Middle-sea and Lear-sea"", ""Angle-Land"", and ""Redriff"", Jones' poem considers the theme of nautical navigation."