 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
 | Andrew H. Miller - 1996 - 258 pages
...body. Blake had raised the issue on English soil in 1789 with the literally soul-blenching start of "The Little Black Boy": "My mother bore me in the southern wild, / And I am black, but O! my soul is white" (11. 1-2). Half a century later, and after much liberal legislation, Barrett Browning's... | |
 | William Blake - 1996 - 180 pages
...boy offer to the reader's complacency? Haw does the meaning of the word 'heat' change in the poem? 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.... | |
 | Sara Jeannette Duncan - 1996 - 352 pages
...not more natures like yours among our rulers? Then would all bad feeling between the races disappear. "My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is white!" And you, sir, will well remember that "We are put on earth a little space That... | |
 | Susan Gubar - 2000 - 356 pages
...slavery. Consider, for example, the beginning of Blake's famous poem "The Little Black Boy" (1789): 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.... | |
 | Kenneth Little - 1998 - 326 pages
...Blake wrote in his Songs of Innoceace— My mother bore me in a southern w1ld, And I am black, but O my soul is white, White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as though bereaved of light. propensities of the black man play a prominent part. 1 It is difficult, however,... | |
 | Nicholas M. Williams - 1998 - 280 pages
...reproductive transfer. Several readers have noted, for instance, the pressures at work in the first stanza 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... | |
 | Don Herzog - 2000 - 580 pages
...Perhaps the least innocent of his Songs of Innocence is 'The Little Black Boy," a childlike recital. 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.... | |
 | Earl Shorris - 2000 - 292 pages
...whose work came so easily to them; more than anything they responded to this poem by William Blake. The Little Black Boy My mother bore me 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 bereaved of light.... | |
 | Mary Prince - 2001 - 162 pages
...soul was frequently made in Abolitionist literature of this period. See, for example: William Blake, 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'... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - 2001 - 276 pages
...of speaking in order to be heeded. There are exceptions, but the general preference remains intact. 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.... | |
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