- Agamemnon's Tomb
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Emma Lazarus
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Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Agamemnon's Tomb, by Emma Lazarus.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 16, 2021.
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Emma Lazarus was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish causes.
She wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
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