| 1846 - 308 páginas
...kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters, — Woe is me my stolen daughters ' Gone, gone— sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. Oh, when weary, sad, and slow, From... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 páginas
...house of prayer, And the holy counsels there — Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters,— Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone — Toiling through the weary day,... | |
| 1853 - 380 páginas
...and refuge prove, With a more than mother's love. Gone, gone, sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters, Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Americans ! — We plead with you on behalf of three millions and a half of immortal beings whom... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 276 páginas
...sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air, — Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters, — Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. There no mother's eye is near them,... | |
| John Lawrence - 1854 - 230 páginas
...sunbcams glare Through the hot and misty air, — Gone, Gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters, — Woe is me, my stolen daughters! Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. There no mother's eye is ncar them,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 436 páginas
...them — There no father's welcome meet them. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters — Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From the tree whose shadow lay On... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1855 - 440 páginas
...sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air, — Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. From Virginia's hills and waters, — Woe is me, my stolen daughters I " But perhaps as fine a specimen of his poetry in this vein, is his poem upon the death of Oliver... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 páginas
...them — • There no father's welcome meet them. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters — Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From the tree whose shadow lay On... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 páginas
...tyrant's power is o'er, And the fetter galls no more! Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, — From Virginia's hills and waters — Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! * But slavery is not the only thing Mr. Whittier abhors; he is resolute against the gallows, he will... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 422 páginas
...kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters — Woe is me, my stolen daughters I Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. Oh, when weary, sad, and slow, From... | |
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