Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. There no mother's eye is near them, There no mother's ear can hear them ; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's... Lands of the Slave and the Free: Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada - Página 8por Henry Anthony Murray - 1855 - 460 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1904 - 632 páginas
...the rice-swamp dank and lone, 10 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, 15 There no mother's ear can hear them ; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 738 páginas
...the rice-swamp dank and lone, to From Virginia's hills and waters; Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank...hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. м Gone,... | |
| Augustus White Long - 1905 - 382 páginas
...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,...hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. 10 Gone,... | |
| Augustus White Long - 1905 - 380 páginas
...Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice swamp dank and lone. There no mother's eye is near them, 5 There no mother's ear can hear them ; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. i« Gone,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1910 - 520 páginas
...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...them ; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone,... | |
| Robert Haven Schauffler - 1915 - 390 páginas
...hills and waters, — Woe is me, my stolen daughters! Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamps dank and lone. There no mother's eye is near them,...them ; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them ; Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone,... | |
| Robert Haven Schauffler - 1916 - 400 páginas
...hills and waters, — Woe is me, my stolen daughters! Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamps dank and lone. There no mother's eye is near them,...them ; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them ; Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone,... | |
| Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - 1920 - 332 páginas
...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...hear them; Never when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arm caress them. Gone, gone... | |
| John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 páginas
...fashion into being "The Farewell" of a Virginia slave mother to her daughters sold into Southern bondage: Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank...hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone,... | |
| Richard Le Gallienne - 1925 - 448 páginas
...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...hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone,... | |
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