Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of July 22nd
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It is the 203rd day of the year, leaving 162 days remaining in 2022.
She wrote her stories about American ideals, immigration, and her Jewish identity. Her poems urged sensitivity and argued for the dignity of all.
The last lines of her seminal poem, The New Colossus, sit on a bronze plate on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, giving a voice to Lady Liberty that resonates to this day.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Lazarus stared writing at a young age, and she published her first collections of essays and poems in 1867, when she was 18. Her works, including poems inspired by the U.S. Civil War, were praised and published in magazines of the day. She continued writing, including poems inspired by the U.S. Civil War.
But she found her true calling while supporting Jewish immigration to the United States, and calling for a homeland for persecuted Jews. In 1982, she published Songs of a Semite. Five years later, she published what many consider her strongest work, By the Waters of Babylon. It's a collection of prose-poems around the theme of the sorrows of Jewish exile.
She died that same year, in 1887.
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