 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 of day, She took me...  Stories from My Attic - Page 14by Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Patrick Brantlinger - 1988 - 326 pages
..."the traffickers in Negro blood. " Blake's "Little Black Boy" is perhaps the most familiar of these: 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.6... | |
 | David V. Erdman - 1991 - 628 pages
...they could see only her dark skin and not her inward purity. Blake had explained this symbolism in his 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.... | |
 | William Blake - 1991 - 220 pages
...Romantic Period 1750-1850, edited by RT Davies and BG Beatty (Liverpool, 1976), p. 25. Plates 9-10: The Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the southern wild, And we are put on earth a little space. . And I am black, but O! my soul is white. That we may learn to... | |
 | Jan Nederveen Pieterse - 1992 - 264 pages
...and in nigra sum sed formosa', 'I am black but beautiful' of the Song of Solomon. Or as in Blake's The Little Black Boy': My mother bore me in the southern wild, And 1 am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the sweet chorus of 'Ha, ha, he!' BoTP; CH; EnRP; GoJo; NAEL-2; NBLV; OxBChV The Little Black Boy 97 EC; OBTV The Spacious Firmament on High 3 The Spacious Firm O! my soul is white; 98 "And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams... | |
 | William Blake - 1993 - 206 pages
...una copia del primo libro di Blake, Poetical Sketches; la data probabile di composizione è il 1787. 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.... | |
 | Robert Earl Hood - 220 pages
...in some poets like William Blake (1757-1827), who defend the superiority of whites over blackness: 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.8... | |
 | Adrian Hastings - 1995 - 726 pages
...mind one of those page-boys who appear quite often in portraits of the eighteenth-century aristocracy. 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.... | |
 | Christopher Lane - 1995 - 348 pages
...picturesque "sombrero" of an explorer, but a ready camera had performed miracles — — Ronald Firbank1 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.... | |
 | William Blake - 1995 - 136 pages
...thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee. Little Lamb God bless thee. 24 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.... | |
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