<Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York City, New York, U.S. </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Author (s) </Th> <Td> Emma Lazarus </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Purpose </Th> <Td> To raise money for the statue's pedestal's construction </Td> </Tr> <P> "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 . </P>

Statue of liberty bring me your tired your poor