 | William Blake - 1925 - 558 pages
...Joy, but two days old. Sweet Joy I call thee : Thou dost smile, I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee ! The Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the...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,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...peace, For they know when their Shepherd is nigh. Songs of Innocence, 1789 M1 389 The Little 'Black 'Boy mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black,...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,... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1928 - 798 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... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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,...English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. Undoubtedly Blake was struggling in the poem to find a positive point to negritude — 'these black... | |
 | 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,...angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light.8 Little empirical data supported such a convergence; much of it relied on travelers'... | |
 | 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,...angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. —William Blake2 In his collection of literary criticism Abinger Harvest (1936),... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? THE LITTLE BLACK BOY My mother bore me in the southem wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White...an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me undemeath a tree And sitting down before the heat of day. She... | |
 | Christopher Lane - 1995 - 352 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 0! 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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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... 
