 O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my 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, I ask, Me from my delights...  Poems - Side 309av William Cowper - 1810Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 sider
...COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a strangers enrolled me Minds arc never to be sold. Still in thought as tree as ever, What are England's rights,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1832 - 410 sider
...spirits inseparable from a state of slavery. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. 1. FORC'D from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase...raging billows borne. Men from England bought and soid me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 sider
...burial blent! , Byron. EXERCISE 23. Negro's Complaint. 1 (—) Forced from home and all its pleasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Afric's coast I left forlorn; To increase a stranger's treasures, Paid my price in paltry gold; But... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 sider
...possesses more pathos and spirit than the former. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. Forced from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase...they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. * The slave trade was abolished in the year 1807 ; declared to be felony, in 1811 ; and to be piracy,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 sider
...He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from my home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase...sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though theirs they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are... | |
 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - 1835 - 486 sider
...home and all its treasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn, To increase a stranger's treasures — on the raging billows borne. . Men from England bought...my price in paltry gold, But though slave they have enrolled me, minds are never to be sold." I do not think, though, he could have had the heartto utter... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1836 - 330 sider
...called The Negro's Complaint, and of which the following is a copy : "Fore'd from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn, To increase...bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, (hough theirs they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. "Still in thought as free as ever,... | |
 | Alexander Slidell- Mackenzie - 1836 - 642 sider
...from home and all its treasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures, On the raging billows borne. Men from England bought...price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold." I do not think, though, he could have had the heart to utter... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 sider
...one red burial blent! Byron EXERCISE 23. Negro's Complaint. 1 ( — ) Forced from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn; To increase...they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. 2 Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 sider
...skies may bloom. LESSON LXXIII. The Negro's Complaint. — COWPER. 1. FORC'D from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase...England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold 5 But though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. •Cambyses, the son of Cyrus... | |
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