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I Rate Emma Lazarus 8 or 9 Out Of Ten As A Poet And 7 Out Of Ten As A Babe. Who Agrees?
https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 22nd July, 2023 | Ozguy1945

Posted on 07/22/2023 12:45:58 AM PDT by Ozguy1945

Poet Emma Lazarus was born on July 22nd, 1849 in New York City.

She is most famous for the words:

“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 ....."

She also had some great thoughts about the dangers of anti patriotic crap:

"“Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.”

This insight is from two centuries ago, but sounds pretty MAGA to me. Likewise the following couplet could be about the cancerous ideologies eating away at us in the West today:

“There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.”

“Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.”

“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.”

God Bless Emma Lazarus, a good looking woman IMHO and a very important poet and thinker.

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To: nwrep

Well said.


21 posted on 07/22/2023 6:17:40 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: No name given

That was Emma Goldman.


22 posted on 07/22/2023 6:18:33 AM PDT by x
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To: Ozguy1945
Here is my favorite babe from American History. She gets a 10 out of 10 as a marksman and a 10 out of 10 as a babe:

Annie Oakley

23 posted on 07/22/2023 6:18:35 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Ozguy1945

Disagree on both counts, but the 19th century was a very different era. What may be dangerous now was possible and desirable when we had a continent to populate.


24 posted on 07/22/2023 6:21:48 AM PDT by x
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To: Bratch

Eye bleach please!!


25 posted on 07/22/2023 6:48:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: GingisK

I always wondered what his name was ...


26 posted on 07/22/2023 6:49:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Ozguy1945

I Rate Emma Lazarus 8 or 9 Out Of Ten As A Poet And 7 Out Of Ten As A Babe. Who Agrees?

Bad poet and butt ugly woman.


27 posted on 07/22/2023 6:51:21 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Ozguy1945

Eh... I guess id let her ride me after at least a 6pk.


28 posted on 07/22/2023 6:57:51 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Ozguy1945

Got a bit of a honker though...


29 posted on 07/22/2023 6:59:18 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: PIF
I always wondered what his name was ...

You lost me. Care to elaborate?

30 posted on 07/22/2023 7:24:40 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Looks like a guy


31 posted on 07/22/2023 7:35:21 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Annie? Nay.


32 posted on 07/22/2023 7:44:28 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Early west transvestite.


33 posted on 07/22/2023 7:47:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
Perhaps you should read up on her.

It is disturbing that so many Americans enjoy the destruction of their history and the denigration of their ancestors and heroes. You fit right in with the statue tumblers.

34 posted on 07/22/2023 7:56:59 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Ozguy1945

Longfellow said he liked the poem better than the statue.

Emma Lazarus was a great American poet.


35 posted on 07/22/2023 8:22:57 AM PDT by devere
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To: GingisK

Read up on that stuff 75 years ago.


36 posted on 07/22/2023 8:26:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Ozguy1945

If I absolutely have to be polite and answer the questions you pose with your article, I would rate the few lines of poetry OK. Hers is certainly better than mine by a considerable margin. Since I’m not a connoisseur of poetry, my opinion should be worthless. As to her beauty, I think she is rather plain. Her chin and jaw lines are somewhat masculine. I do think her eyes are attractive and show intelligence. On the other hand, women didn’t dress in those days to look pretty. They generally dressed so that their figure was not obvious.


37 posted on 07/22/2023 8:33:20 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: PIF

How many statues have you pulled over?


38 posted on 07/22/2023 8:35:19 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Just the one of you...


39 posted on 07/22/2023 9:15:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: nwrep
... and long dead ... which reminds me of a joke from Brian Regan who says his son came up with it:
Why can't dinosaurs talk?
'Cause they're all dead!
40 posted on 07/22/2023 9:20:05 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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