| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| Give me your tired, your poor |
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| A line from a poem, “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus. “The New Colossus,” describing the Statue of Liberty, appears on a plaque at the base of the statue. It ends with the statue herself speaking: | 1 |
| 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-tossed, to me: | | I lift my lamp beside the golden door. |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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