<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>
<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>
who wrote the plaque on the statue of liberty
who wrote the plaque on the statue of liberty
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus