The final line from Emma Lazarus's poem The New Colossus is sandwiched between her three vivid Statues of Liberty: "I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door." The painting reimagines the Statue of Liberty "anew as a symbol of New York City and the United States' generosity to anyone seeking shelter, freedom, or simply a better life." It has become an iconic image of America. Lazarus was born in 1849 in New York City. She was a poet, writer, and translator who worked with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (now known as PACT). In 1883, she wrote the poem that became known as The New Colossus. It was published in a book called Poems by American Women authors. The poem was included at the base of a statue of Lady Liberty sculpted by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. Here is how the poem ends: "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free./Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost/To me, their king." Lazarus was a refugee herself. Her father was a wealthy brewer and her family had money problems when she was young. They were not rich like many other people in America then. She learned about poverty and racism while living in Brooklyn before she went to study literature and art in Paris.