 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 300 pages
...happy and w ana, So, if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. Here is another, which is called THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. My mother bore me in the Southern wild, And I am black, but oh, my soul is white ; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...Poetry. ТНК LITTLE ULACK BOY. 705 My mutlier bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh! my soul is white ; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. flly mother taught me underneath a tree, And sitting down before the heat of day,... | |
 | William Blake - 1866 - 132 pages
...all the vales rejoice ; Little lamb, who made thee ? Dost thou know who made thee ? Little lamb, Til tell thee, Little lamb, I'll tell thee. He is called...bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh ! my soul is white ; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | 1867 - 974 pages
...with it :— " THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. " My mother bore mo in the Southern Wild, And I am black, but 0 ! my Soul is white ; White as an Angel, is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. " Sly mother* taught me beneath a tree, And sitting down before the heat of day,... | |
 | 1868 - 904 pages
...beauty, with accordant grandeur of sentiment and language, he knew no parallel nor hint elsewhere. " My mother bore me in the southern wild. And I am black, but oh my soul ia white. White as an angel ia the English child ; But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1869 - 294 pages
...happy and warm, So, if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. Here is another, which is called THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. My mother bore me in the Southern wild, And I am black, but oh, my soul is white ; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | 1869 - 562 pages
...extracted the following exquisite poem from his " Songs of Innocence," written some time before 1789 : — THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. My mother bore me in the Southern wild, And I am black ; but, oh ! my soul is white : White as an angel is the English child ; But I am black, as if bereaved of... | |
 | 1869 - 550 pages
...extracted the following exquisite poem from his " Songs of Innocence," written some time before 1789 : — THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. My mother bore me in the Southern wild, And I am black ; but, oh ! my soul is white : White as an angel is the English child ; But I am black, as if bereaved of... | |
 | 1870 - 588 pages
...is The Little Black Boy (p. 30), a poem rarely equalled for grand simplicity and deep pathos : — " My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black ; but oh my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...reason to imagine her very timid." THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. south-era under-neath be-reav-ed van-ish. My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh, my soul is white, White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
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The Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And sitting down before the heat... 
