 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
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 sider
...one red burial blent' _ Byron EXERCISE 23. JVcgTo'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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1843 - 372 sider
...soon expels him if it is. VOL. I. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. TT'ORCED from home and all its pleasures, J- Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's...bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, slave though they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 sider
...little address, May be followed perhaps by a smile." THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures, O'er the racing billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 sider
...skies may bloom. LESSON LXXIII. The Negro's Complaint. — COWPEH. I. FORC'D from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures, O'er flie raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 sider
...West Indies, must have viewed with contempt " THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. " Forc'd 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 Chancellor's neglect of his early friend is thus ironical! v recorded ty IVtt-r Pindar : " Yet... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 sider
...heart is none of bis ; Or soon expels him if it is. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn; To increase...price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enxolTd rae, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights,... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 sider
...fair Helen of Lorn 1 THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. (COWPER.) Forced from home and all its pleasures, A Wc's coast I left forlorn; To increase a stranger's treasures,...sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though their's they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever. What are... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 sider
...little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures O'er the raging hillows borne. Men from England bought and sold me. Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though theirs... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 sider
...heart is none of his, Or soon expels him if it is. THE NEGllO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; ' To increase...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,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 sider
...vanity wish for more ?"f "THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. " Forc'd from home and all its pleasures, Afrio's coast I left forlorn, To increase a stranger's treasures,...they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold." The Chancellor's neglect of Ms early friend is thus ironically recorded by Peter Pindar:— "Yet let... | |
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