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Emma Lazarus: The Poet Who Welcomed the World

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SONNET
"The New Colossus" is a Petrarchan sonnet, 14 lines of welcome, written by Lazarus in 1883 to help raise funds for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
YEARNING
"Yearning to breathe free" is perhaps the most quoted phrase from the poem, capturing the longing of millions who crossed the Atlantic toward a new life.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BRONZE
The Statue of Liberty herself is sheathed in copper, but it was Lazarus's bronze-cast words, engraved on a tablet, that gave the monument its voice of welcome.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BEACON
Lady Liberty was originally intended to function as a working lighthouse, her torch serving as an actual beacon for ships entering New York Harbor.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Emma Lazarus word search, free and large-print, honoring the poet whose words "Give me your tired, your poor" still ring across the harbor.

About Emma Lazarus: The Poet Who Welcomed the World

On July 22, 1849, Emma Lazarus was born in New York City, and the world of American poetry quietly gained one of its most enduring voices. Her sonnet "The New Colossus," written in 1883, gave the Statue of Liberty its soul: bronze and harbor light wrapped in words of refuge and welcome. The lines she penned, "your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", were engraved on the statue's pedestal in 1903, where they still greet every ship, every traveler, every dream arriving at the golden door.

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