My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree And sitting down before the heat of day, She took me... Stories from My Attic - Pàgina 14per Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 269 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1846 - 436 pàgines
...spoke with such a tone, That I almost received her heart into my own." THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. — Blake. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but, O, my soul is white ! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
| 1854 - 456 pàgines
...with such a tone, That I almost received her heart into my own." THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. — Blake. Mr mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but, O, my soul is white ! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
| 1855 - 458 pàgines
...with such a tone, That I almost received her heart into my own." THE LITTLE BLACK BOY.— Blake. Mr mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but, O, my soul is white ! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
| 1858 - 460 pàgines
...spoke with such a tone, That I almost received her heart into my own." THE LITTLE BLACK BOY.— Blake. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but, O, my soul is white ! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pàgines
...GREEN. The sun does arise ............. 28 THE LAMB. Little lamb, ic ho made thee ? ............. 29 THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, My mother bore me in the southern wild ..... 30 THE BLOssOM. Merry, merry sparrow ! .............. 31 THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER. When My mother... | |
| Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pàgines
...youth Age might but take the things Youth needed not ! W. Wordsworth. CVIL THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. Y mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
| 1868 - 904 pàgines
...beauty, with accordant grandeur of sentiment and language, he knew no parallel nor hint elsewhere. " My mother bore me in the southern wild. And I am black, but oh my soul ia white. White as an angel ia the English child ; But I am black, as if bereaved of light. " My mother... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1873 - 388 pàgines
...production of the representation of an object ; " although he admired the poet's description, — " My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black,...as an angel is the English child, But I am black as it' bereaved of light." For pure, nonsensical abstractions he had no taste. ^ No work on metaphysics... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pàgines
...deep and kind, Shall watch around and leave good gifts behind, Little Bell, for theel" T. WSSTWOOU THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black; but, oh, my soul is white 1 White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 508 pàgines
...thou a lamb, We are called by His name. Little lamb, God bless thee ! Little lamb, God bless thee ! THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
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