| William Cowper - 1818 - 318 страници
...Or soon expels him if it is. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORC'D from home and all its pleasures, Africk's coast I left forlorn; To increase a stranger's treasures,...paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enroll'd mej Minds are never to be sold. Still in thoughtas free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask,... | |
| William Cowper - 1818 - 240 страници
...alone : But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...treasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Men from Kngland bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold; But, though slave they have enroll'd Die,... | |
| William Cowper - 1818 - 244 страници
...coast I left forlorn ; [\> increase a stranger's treasures, O'er the raging billows borne. •f en from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold; tut, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. • till in thought as free as... | |
| Titus Strong - 1819 - 248 страници
...Afric's coast I left forlorn To increase a stranger's treasures, Eorc'd from home and all its pleasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought...gold ; But though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task ? Still in thought a,s... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - 556 страници
...Proves that the heart is none of his, Or soon expels him if it is. 201 THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 страници
...alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...gold; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 страници
...profession; Proves that the heart is none of his, Or soon expels him, if it is. NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FOHC'D from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...gold; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my... | |
| Noah Worcester - 1822 - 320 страници
...'eshausts the mighty store, Then, like the Macedonian, sighs for more. 59 Rev. Henry Moored Forced from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures, On the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price-in paltry gold ; But... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 434 страници
...shackles I plunge in the main, And rush to the realms of the brave.' ROSCOE. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. Forced from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...paltry gold; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 470 страници
...a wedded state: Instead of harmony, 'tis jar, And tumult, and intestine war. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORC'D from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast...gold; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my... | |
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