Annie Oakley
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com ...
Well said.
That was Emma Goldman.
Annie Oakley
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.
Eye bleach please!!
I always wondered what his name was ...
I Rate Emma Lazarus 8 or 9 Out Of Ten As A Poet And 7 Out Of Ten As A Babe. Who Agrees?
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Bad poet and butt ugly woman.
Eh... I guess id let her ride me after at least a 6pk.
Got a bit of a honker though...
You lost me. Care to elaborate?
Looks like a guy
Annie? Nay.
Early west transvestite.
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.
Longfellow said he liked the poem better than the statue.
Emma Lazarus was a great American poet.
Read up on that stuff 75 years ago.
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.
How many statues have you pulled over?
Just the one of you...
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