<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 poem that is engraved on the pedestal of the statue of liberty
who wrote the poem that is engraved on the pedestal of the statue of liberty
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus