| Julie H. Kim - 2005 - 253 pages
...to Ruth Rendell, 193, 195. 21. The first four lines of the 1789 Blake poem: "My mother bore me in a southern wild, / And I am black, but O! my soul is...angel is the English child, / But I am black, as if bereav'd of light." When Wexford cannot stomach the Chinese heat, he appropriates the speaker's rhetoric... | |
| John Beusterien - 2006 - 236 pages
...(1789) from the English Romantic poet William Blake could be a soliloquy from one of these saints: "My mother bore me in the southern wild, / And I am black, but O! my soul is white.""' This trope — that resurfaces in twentieth-century Spain with El negro del alma bianco. [The Black... | |
| William Blake - 2007 - 392 pages
...lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee. Little Lamb God bless thee. #& 7 JVly 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... | |
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