 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...Who became an infant small. 30 Infant smiles are His own smiles; Heaven and earth to peace beguiles. a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly oh my soul is white ! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...watchful while they are in peace, For they know when their shepherd is nigh. THE LITTLE BLACK BOY 1788 form 65 Which lives unchanged within, and his voice fell L 0, my soul is white ! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | Elizabeth McCracken - 1917 - 234 pages
...deep God-given thrill That Mary felt when all the earth was still In the Judean starlight long ago ! THE LITTLE BLACK BOY MY 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. My mother taught... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...tool "Trifles are trifles; but serious matters, They must be seen to," says little Prince Tatters. 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.... | |
 | Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 pages
...then go home to bed.' The little ones leaped and shouted and laugh'd And all the hills echoed. LXXV THE LITTLE BLACK BOY My mother bore me in the southern...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,... | |
 | Joyce Kilmer - 1921 - 328 pages
...only in her own splendid imagination? If this were so the case would really not be without precedent. "My mother bore me in the southern wild ; And I am black, but O, my soul is white," was not (as scholars of AD 2,000 may gravely state) the outcry of a little colored boy, but the work... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1922 - 242 pages
...class, or colour; they have for their fundamental basis equality in the sight of God. As Blake puts it : My mother bore me in the southern wild And I am black, but oh my soul is white. That these tenets are capable of being applied to racial and political purposes... | |
 | Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - 1924 - 148 pages
...fear thee and thy glittering eye, And thy skinny hand so brown. Coleridge : The Ancient Mariner. (c) 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.... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1924 - 130 pages
...be worse than this forest. LOCKYER. Ah ! Imagine haunting this forest ! " And I am black, but oh ! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child !" COLLIE. Here ! Tak' your temperature. [Hands him a thermometer. LOCKYER. [Refusing it] Wonder if... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1924 - 132 pages
...canna be worse than this forest. LOCKYER. Ah! Imagine haunting this forest ! " And I am black, but oh ! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child !" COLLIE. Here ! Tak' your temperature. [Hands him a thermometer. LOCKYER. [Refusing it] Wonder if... | |
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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... 
