 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 - 1881 - 562 sider
...heart is none of his, Or soon expels him if it is. THE NEGEO'S COMPLAINT. FOECED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase...raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold mo, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But. though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold.... | |
 | George Routledge (and sons; ltd.) - 1882 - 202 sider
...life that now is, and of that which is to come. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase...stranger's treasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Men, call'd Christians, bought and sold me. Piid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have euroll'd... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 sider
...all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall. 3. I scorn your proffered treaty. 4. Torn from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn, To increase...stranger's treasures O'er the raging billows borne. 5. The steamship " Warrior " was lost, with all on board, near Cape Horn. 6. Ha! laughest thou, Lochiel,... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 sider
...sparrow fall. 3. I scorn your proffered treaty. 4. Torn from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coust I left forlorn, To increase a stranger's treasures O'er the raging billows borne. 5. The steamship "Warrior" was lost, with all on board, near Cape Horn. 6. Ha! laughest thon, Lochiel,... | |
 | English poetry - 1883 - 338 sider
...COMPLAINT. LEWIS. FOBCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn, To increase the stranger's treasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and soM me, C Paid my price in paltry gold; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to... | |
 | 1888 - 344 sider
...which role nature appears to have intended her. 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 enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1885 - 352 sider
...blameless, be it what it may), I wish it all fulfilled. 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 enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 sider
...aiding, Both poet saves and plume from fading. 1788. 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 enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 sider
...be it what it may) I wish it all fulfilled. 20 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 enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights,... | |
 | Samuel Robert Cassius - 1898 - 26 sider
...C'owper for "HUtcirr of Sbnery »nil Ihe Slave Trinis.'' Forced from home and all its pleasures Afrlc's coast I left forlorn, To Increase a stranger's treasures...sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold; But, though theirs they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are... | |
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