 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...  Hours at Home - Page 591870Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...bless thee ; Little lamb, God bless thee. lilakc's Poetry. ТНК LITTLE ULACK BOY. 705 My mutlier bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but...angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. flly mother taught me underneath a tree, And sitting down before the heat of day,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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.... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...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.... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Artists - 1863 - 366 pages
...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, hut O my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | 1867 - 974 pages
...with it :— " THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. " My mother bore mo in the Southern Wild, And I am black, but 0 ! my Soul is white ; White as an Angel, is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. " Sly mother* taught me beneath a tree, And sitting down before the heat of day,... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...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.... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 904 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 388 pages
...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... | |
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