 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 300 pages
...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,...kissed me, And, pointing to the East, began to say : * Look on the rising sun, — there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away ;... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...BOY. — Blake. 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,...and kissed me, And pointing to the east began to say : — " Look on the rising sun, — there God does live, And gives his light, and gives his heat away... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...BOY. — Blake. Mr 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,...kissed me, And, pointing to the east, began to say: — - " Look on the rising sun, — there God does live, And gives his light, and gives his heat away... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...BOY.— Blake. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I arn black, but, 0, my soul is white ! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black,...kissed me, And, pointing to the east, began to say: — *' Look on the rising sun, — there God does live, And gives his light, and gives his heat away;... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...BLACK BOY.— Blake. Mr 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,...kissed me, And, pointing to the east, began to say : — "Look on the rising sun, — there God does live, And gives his light, and gives his heat away... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pages
...THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, hut O my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child, But I am black,...kissed me, And, pointing to the East, began to say: ' Look on the rising sun : there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away, And flowers... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. Y 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,...kissed me, And, pointing to the East, began to say : ' Look on the rising sun : there God docs live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away, And... | |
 | William Blake - 1866 - 132 pages
...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,...kissed me, And, pointing to the east, began to say : — " Look on the rising sun,— there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away... | |
 | 1867 - 974 pages
...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,... | |
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I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And pointing to the east, began to say: "Look on the rising sun: there God does live, And gives... 
