Give me your tired, your poor

Cultural  

1. 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:

   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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Example Sentences

The lines, "Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," are inscribed on a plaque in the statue's museum.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024

Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2019

"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!"

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2018

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

From US News • Jan. 11, 2016

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore— Send these, the homeless, temptest-tost to me— I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 3, December, 1884 by Various