American poet Emma Lazarus

 

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me you’re tired, you’re poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

 

American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887).

https://www.howtallisthestatueofliberty.org/what-is-the-quote-on-the-statue-of-liberty/

"The New Colossus"

 is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus

She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World).^[2] In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.

http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm