What, ho! our countrymen in chains! The whip on woman's shrinking flesh! Our soil yet reddening with the stains Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh! What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market... The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier ... - Side 127af John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 256 sider
...stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! — What ! God's own image bought and sold ! Americans...agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain 1 To us — whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain; — To us whose boast is loud... | |
| Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 240 sider
...stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! — What ! God's own image bought and sold ! Americans...agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain 1 To us — whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain; — To us whose boast is loud... | |
| Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 236 sider
...Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What! mothers from their children riven !— What ! Ood's own image bought and sold ! Americans to market driven,...agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain 1 To us—whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain;— To us whose boast is loud... | |
| 1838 - 536 sider
...the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh 1 What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS...us, whose boast is loud and long Of holy liberty and light, Say, shall these writhing slaves of Wrong, Plead vainly for their plundered Right? What ! shall... | |
| 1845 - 234 sider
...reddening with the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and What ! mothers from their children riven ! What! God's own image bought and sold! AMERICANS to market driven, And barter'd as the brute for gold ! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in... | |
| 1846 - 302 sider
...with the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven! What ' God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS to market driven, And barter'd as the brute for gold ! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 sider
...the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS...us, whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light — Say, shall these writhing slaves of Wrong, Plead vainly for their plundered Right ? What... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 sider
...with the stains Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS...us, whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light — Say, shall these writhing slaves of Wrong, Plead vainly for their plundered Right 3 What... | |
| 1853 - 188 sider
...with the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! AMERICANS to market driven, And bartered as the brute for goM! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain? To us whose fathers... | |
| William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 sider
...was soon noticed by Clotel. CHAPTEE V. THE SLAVE MARKET. " WHAT ! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And barter'd as the brute for gold."— Whittier. NOT far from Canal-street, in the city of New Orleans,... | |
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