| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...watch around and leave good gifts behind, Little Bell, for theel" T. WSSTWOOU THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black; but, oh, my soul is white 1 White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 534 pages
...called by His name. Little lamb, God bless thee ! Little lamb, God bless thee ! 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 bereaved of light.... | |
| James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 pages
...stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. m. 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, 33 if bereaved of light.... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 324 pages
...Little lamb, God bless thee 1 Little lamb, God bless thcc 1 BLAKE'S POEMS. THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. Mv mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O my soul is white 1 White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 pages
...: For though his body's under hatches, His soul has gone aloft. Charles Dibdin THE LITTLE BLACK BOY My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black ; but, oh, my soul is white I White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. 487. The Little Black Boy IV^TY 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 bereaved of light.... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1902 - 434 pages
...although he admired Blake's description, — "My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am hlack, but, oh ! my soul is white, — White as an angel...English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light." For pure, nonsensical abstractions he had no taste. No work on metaphysics found room on his shelves... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1904 - 1058 pages
...The Little Black Boy mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is white I White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. 56° My mother taught me underneath a tree, And, sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on... | |
| William Blake - 1905 - 258 pages
...Sweet joy I call thee : Thou dost smile, I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee ! The Little Black Boy 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.... | |
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