 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - Liczba stron: 402
...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... | |
 | Poetical ladder - 1827 - Liczba stron: 94
...flies, but oh ! too late we find, It leaves a real sting behind. MERRICK. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FOKC'D from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...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... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - Liczba stron: 308
...Rider and horse, — friend, foe,— -in one red burial blent • Byron. 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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - Liczba stron: 418
...pent, Rider and horse,—friend, foe,—in one red burial blent! Byron. 5. Negro's Complaint. 1 FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...my price in paltry gold; But though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. 2 Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights,... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin - 1828 - Liczba stron: 426
...' Forced from home and all its plrasnrei, Afric's coait I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger'« treasures. O'er the raging billows borne. Men from...England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; Bnl, though slave they have enrolled nv, Minds are never to be sold. 'Still in thought as free as... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - Liczba stron: 468
...; Proves that the heart is none of his, Or soon expels him if it is. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORC'D from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures, O'er thc raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But,... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin - 1828 - Liczba stron: 416
...To increase a stranger'i treasures, O'er the raging billow* borne. Men from England bought and >old me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be told. 'Still in thought as free as ever, What are England'* righu,... | |
 | 1882 - Liczba stron: 224
...forlorn To increase a stranger's treasures, O'er ,he raging billows borno ; Men called rhrist,ans, bought and sold me. Paid my price in paltry gold But though theirs they have earolled me Minds are never to ba sold — Cowper. The sun of a May morning in Ilie... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Liczba stron: 824
...nor the deep morass Refuse, but through the shaking wilderness Pick your nice way. Thornton. Forced from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left...stranger's treasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Covper. Oh ! who can tell ? save he whose heart hath tried And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide,... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - Liczba stron: 334
...from England hought and suld me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; Bet, though theirs they have eurolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, V.'hai are England's iights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task? Fleecy... | |
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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... 
