<Tr> <Th> Signature </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849--November 19, 1887) was an American poet and Georgist from New York City . </P> <P> She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in 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 by Irving Berlin as the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" for the 1949 musical Miss Liberty, which was based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty . </P> <P> Lazarus was born into a large Sephardic Jewish family, the fourth of seven children of Moses Lazarus and Esther Nathan . One of her great - grandfathers on the Lazarus side was from Germany; the rest of her Lazarus and Nathan ancestors were originally from Portugal and resident in New York long before the American Revolution . Lazarus's great - great grandmother on her mother's side, Grace Seixas Nathan (born in New York in 1752) was also a poet . Lazarus was also related through her mother to Benjamin N. Cardozo, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . </P>

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